[DeTomaso] Indicator lights on race cars?

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Yellow headlights, that brings back memories.

I spent half of entire day back in 1985 trying to find and buy yellow
headlights for my 325 BMW,

First I had to learn to ask for them, something like "Jorn la fire"

We were in Monaco and I looked for Auto parts stores ( really rich people
over there don't do a lot of self repair )

ended up at the BMW dealer who had a street level store that went 5 floors
underground into service bays and a parts counter carved out of solid rock,
used
elevators to lower the cars down.

bought my lights and carried them back, also learned about VAT taxes at
something like 32%
they ended up bring around $600.00 with everything, whole light assemblys
left and right.

Got back here with 4 across 100W Yellow lights, stopped one time by the
cops, turns out there was no law against it.

Those babies would give you a sun tan.

Kept them on until I got rid of the car.


Michael Shortt
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>wrote:

> >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.
>
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