Re: Be careful out there

Posted by Bill on Sep. 20, 1998 at 17:46:16

In Reply to: Be careful out there
posted by Joe on Sep. 18, 1998 at 07:52:51

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: : For now, I can drive it without a tail light.(my town has lots of cows and chickens, but few people)
: Ok, Bill.Rub it in.Southern New Hampshire is among the fastest growing suburban areas in the country.Maybe "urban" is more like it now.Population in my town has doubled in the last 10 years.
: Watch out on your trip up through Massachusetts.The State Police there (or more correctly their attitude) is one of the reasons I still prefer to "Live Free or Die" in New Hampshire.
: However bad the MA State Police attitude or confiscatory their traffic fines, their motivation is correct.Most people are not a good judge of distance and this is why taillights were invented in the first place.
: I have plans to construct a set of sideboards for my pickup bed which I feel help the appearance somewhat of the square cab versus the low pickup bed.As part of my sideboards, I plan on including a bracket attached on each side with a modern taillight affixed and wired into the A wiring harness. This won't significantly modify the original truck but gives the added safety of adequate taillights for modern driving; which as we all know is where the Model A is a bit "weak".
: Drive safely, best regards,
: Joe
: p.s. Start a new thread if you want to reply on your expedition of this weekend.Let's keep this current if we can.Otherwise we're liable to miss something or somebody's thoughts.
hi Joe,
Sorry that last message was kind of misleading and poorly written.I did not mean to say that I was going to Bennington with no taillight.I went to Bennington with the doodlebug on the trailer, since the doodlebugs club was going as a group.I only meant that I was gonna drive in town with no light, where I would likely not see another car, let alone a cop.
I searched all over, and did not get any good answers.I misread a previous post to this thread, and bought a tudor light arm to bend, but then re read and saw I should have gotten a coupe arm.I talked to a geezer who had a lot of the odd and rare things, and he did not know the answer either.I looked at two 27 T pickups, and both had stamped steel taillight arms mounted on the fender.Still searching.
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