>From a distance, it made the taillight Purple. It also made it harder (dimmer) to see, and illegal in most states. The purpose? Like everything about Hot Rods, it made it different, cool, neat-o, and special. For most popular cars with glass tail lights, you could buy them with the Dot already mounted. Or you could buy just the Blue Dot for the plastic lenses and drill your own hole. Mu Uncle sold them in his Western Auto store. I had them in a couple of '49 fords, along with Sleepy Eyes. -- Ray Jones, Jones Ridge, in the Ouachita Mtns near Mena, Western Arkansas > From: Greg Filtz <filtz@xxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Greg Filtz <filtz@xxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:25:50 -0600 > To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [FWDLK] blue dots > > Gang, > > What was the purpose of putting blue dots on the tail lights of hot > rods? Doesn't that effect the light of the tail lamp? Is it illegal? > > Greg in WI (expecting snow but very moderate temps for January) > 1956 Dodge Royal Lancer > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched > at > http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google! > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google!
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