[DeTomaso] Indicator lights on race cars?

[Charles McCall]

>The Le Mans prototype cars (the really fast cars) have white headlights.
The

production cars (the Ferraris, Porsches, and other comparatively slow

production cars) have yellow headlights. This helps tell what is coming up

behind you. If you are driving a slow Porsche and you see white headlights,

brace yourself because you are about to have your doors blown off. If you

are driving a prototype car and see yellow headlights, relax because you are

faster. 

 

>>>Actually, the cars that had yellow headlights were the French cars, which
almost by definition meant the slow cars.  For a long time, France required
cars on the road to have yellow, instead of white headlights, and as most
all Le Mans race cars were street legal, for this reason the French Le Mans
entrants had yellow headlights.

 

Now, everybody uses super-duper blinding HID headlights..

***I wrote Mike off-line, but there appears to be a delay so I didn't know
he wrote the list as well. I stick bto my story in this aspect. Yellow
headlights at Le Mans are not a thing of the past, nor are they only
reserved for French cars. 

 

In the past, it is true that French road cars had yellow headlights.
However, that has nothing to do with the headlight color at Le Mans. There
were cars running as late as 2007 (the last time I attended "normal" Le
Mans) with yellow headlights, and they were Ferraris, Porsches, etc. of the
Production Car class. They weren't French cars, and they weren't running HID
headlights either.