I believe you are right about the motorcycle theory, Doug. Some very
mean people used to see how close they could get to a bike going the
opposite direction at night to scare the poor rider, I guess. the Darwin
principle took over from there...
> ----------
> From: Doug Pewterbaugh[SMTP:dpewter@email.msn.com]
> Reply To: Doug Pewterbaugh
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:55 PM
> To: Lewis Osborn; oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Water Jacket Welding; Parking/Headlights
>
> Mine works the same way as you initially described also & the wiring
> diagram
> bares this out. I don't know why they started making them that way,
> but I
> heard that it got changed (to keep the parking lights on all of the
> time),
> because of a lot of mistaken motorcycle identity with single headlight
> vehicles causing a lot of wrecks.
>
> Regards,
> Doug Pewterbaugh
> dpewter@msn.com
> Denton, TX
> 49 3104 216 5-window
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lewis Osborn <losborn@teleport.com>
> To: oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net <oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 8:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Water Jacket Welding; Parking/Headlights
>
>
> >From: <jeastman@appliedtheory.com>
> >>Trivia Question: When my headlights are on, my parking lights
> aren't,
> >>though my parking lights work fine w/ the parking lights only turned
> >on.
> >>Is this the way it came out of the factory, or are they suffering
> from
> >the
> >>same electrical wizardry that caused the previous owner to use the
> horn
> >>relay as a ignition bus/voltage regulator?
> >
> >That feature started in the late '60's. On The Forty, I moved the
> wire
> >from the parking lights to the tail light terminal on the head light
> >switch. Voila!
> >
> >Lewis - K7LVO Valley of the Rogue-Medford, OR
> >"The Forty" - 40 Chevy PU - One Owner
> >http://www.teleport.com/~losborn/1940.html
> >
> >
> >
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
> 1959
>
>
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