turn signal separation

["Andrew Watry"<andrew.watry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     Dana said:
     
     >>I cannot guess the reason for this difference between the US- and
     World-market coupes [regarding parking light location].  It would not 
     have been dicated by US regulations at the time. <<
     
     I think it was dictated by US regs.  Euro and other market Alfas of 
     the time had the parking lights/turn signals directly under the 
     headlights, right on the body.  I believe US regulations (probably 
     implemented in 1968, a watershed year for US safety regs: side marker 
     lights, headrests, shoulder belts, among others) required more 
     physical separation of the lights, so that the turn signal/parking 
     light would not get lost in the glare of the much-brighter headlight.  
     Any former NTSB members on the Digest?
     
     Andrew Watry  

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