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Re: Market-specific production variations

To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Subject: Re: Market-specific production variations
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougbert@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:12:29 -0500
At 06:54 PM 7/15/99 -0400, Andrew Mace wrote:

>Actually, John, we got over that separate indicator thing sometime in the 
>mid-1950s. But we still can't seem to uniformly accept the idea of amber 
>turn signals, or even separate bulbs for same, on all the stuff we 
>produce. And, of course, we also weren't heavily into amber front turn 
>indicator lamps here until 1963 on our own cars. But when we allowed them 
>on Chevies and Fords, we still couldn't accept them on British imports 
>until about 1968 or so.

So maybe you can also explain this "daytime running light" thing?  I rent cars
a lot, and sometimes they have 'em and sometime not...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

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