Author: Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:36:05 -0700
A friend of mine here in Kentucky has a very nice one which has the tail reflectors in orange in lieu of the usual Red inserts. He thinks it is an original German car although he has had it for nearl
Cars exported to Germany and Sweden were fitted with separate yellow turn signals instead of the reflectors. They also had the same turn signals in the front. If you take a look behind the "reflecto
Orange reflectors of the same design as used on Healeys were used as side reflectors on British motorcycles.? Could be that a previous owner replaced the stock red ones with orange. Bill Wilkman BT7
My 55 BN1 has white reflectors. According to BMIHT my car was shipped to the US. ( Sorry lads ... you're not getting it back! ;) ) I think I read somewhere that white reflectors are european spec. I
White reflectors were never used on rear facing parts of vehicles in the UK. It was (and still is) unlawful to have them there. The common place for white reflectors was on the forward facing side ri
Author: Bernard Cristalli <bcrist@club-internet.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:35:38 +0200
I think that, back in the days, US and european specs were identical. You can register a period "american" car without any modification for they were completely the same. The change was in 67 I think
There are and were some differences. Red (US spec) blinkers at the rear and white blinkers at the front are tolerated in imports. The rear blinkers in EU have always been orange, the front ones used
That is correct, not only for Germany, but also for most EU countries you have to have seperate blinkers from the running and rear lights, although the enforcement varies from country to country. In
Author: Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:43:34 -0700
It appears the answer was that a prior owner installed the orange in Europe, but not Germany. However, the replacements my friend was chasing appear to be OK with the Lucas Motorcycle reflectors as s
Only France required yellow headlights. They were also of a lower Wattage then the white lights used in the rest of Europe, if I remember correctly. Km/h speedo's are also required in some EU countri
Correct re France; As demand for exEuro cars from America grew, they were sent to Sweden (liberal rules on imports) for EU entry or conversion as required. Actually the Euro cars imported to America
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