Agreed. And they need to do something about the headlights on those things,
too. I thought there was some kind of legislation about headlight height in
the US? After all, it required the MGB to be jacked up back in 1974. You'd
think there would be a maximum height limit, as well -- it has a lot more
bearing on safety.
I mean, in an MG you get used to having headlights filling your cockpit with
glare, but now it's the stupid under-bumper fog-cum-driving-lights-which
-they-operate-full-time-illegally that are doing it, while the actual
headlights shine clean over the top and illuminate the road ahead; which
might be a good thing (since they have 10X the candlepower of your feeble
lamps) if you could see anything at all through the afterimages caused by an
inadvertent glance at the mirror (or just the reflection off your gauge
faces).
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 10/19/06 10:49 PM, Barney Gaylord at barneymg@MGAguru.com wrote:
> At 07:55 PM 10/19/2006 -0700, Max Heim wrote:
>> ....
>> Now that we've saturated the road with 3rd brake lights, it's about
>> time to require a 4th brake light, on a pole.
>
> For my $.02 worth, I think the vans and sport ut'es with tail lights
> six feet lff the ground near the top corners should be outlawed. How
> the hell would anyone in a "normal" size car see those things mixed
> in with street lights and traffic signals or blinded by the
> sun? I've nearly rear ended a couple of those vehicles, and I don't
> care where they put the third brake light.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://MGAguru.com
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