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View Poll Results: Blue Dots Anyone? | |||
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80 | 55.94% |
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23 | 16.08% |
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32 | 22.38% |
What's a Blue Dot? |
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9 | 6.29% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 143. You may not vote on this poll |
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Hand Crafted C-10
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I had always figured these classic Hot Rod blings would score my ‘68 a ticket or at least
a talking to but it appears my truck has come of age… From the Washington State Legislature website concerning vehicle lighting… Rear Tail Lamps - Required to be on from hour after sunset, to hour before sunrise, and at any other times when persons and vehicles are not clearly discernable at 1000 ft. RCW 46.37.020 At least two, red in color, visible from 1000 ft. RCW 46.37.050 All must be on same level and as widely spaced as possible.RCW 46.37.050 On vehicle 40 or more years old, may have a blue or purple insert, not more than one inch in diameter. RCW 46.37.100 Hehehe..won one finally. ![]()
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
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That's cool! I'm gonna run 'em on my 67 no matter what the law says ![]() ![]() I'm curious about the other part of that paragraph... it's pretty dark an hour before sunrise and an hour after sunset ![]()
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Hand Crafted C-10
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Location: Burien, WA
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
wow you type fast! ...just WA being WA I guess? Crazy; why just 40 yo vehicles?
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
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Hand Crafted C-10
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
So, you're surfing for more than truck parts, eh?
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Eat My Rust
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Cypress, Texas
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
Different gov't regs 40 years ago. Would be silly to force older vehicles to have the same regs as newer cars.
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: oklahoma
Posts: 10,670
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
What vehicles I have seen them installed on seem to look cool and don't seem to have any real distraction from the rest of the tailight. Now don't get me started on some of the newer tailight designs or some of the lower end aftermarket tailights.
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BlahBlahBlah
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
Sorry Ellen...I never was a fan of em. But...who really gives a rip what I think...lol.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
i ike them, and I think it's cool that WA lets you do it. Here you can only have them on motorcycles
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Old Skool Club
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Location: Benton, AR "The Heart of Arkansas"
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
I like 'em. The purplish glow that one sees is definately retro. At least we have plastic lenses in which to install them, instead of the old glass lenses of our (mine, at least) fathers.
As to when taillights, or any vehicle lights should be on, it seems that whether or not you turn your lights on in the general area of sunrise/sunset, is determined by your own eyesight instead of what the law says. In driving a school bus, and during the times around sunrise, I see a number of folks who don't have any lights on. Yeah, I see them, but there might be someone who has really bad eyesight who doesn't see them and BAM! I also know that the following statement that "see and BE seen" isn't gonna phase a lot of people but it's true, when it comes to vehicle lighting. You may be able to see just fine, but blue dots or no, someone else may not and end up in your truck bed!
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: houston tx
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
I've actually never seen them installed on a vehicle.
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ASE master tech/machinist
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Blue Mound Texas
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
I love them, brings back child hood memories of the rods my dad and his buddies had. I think almost every hot rod I've ever owned has had them. They are against the law in Texas, but I have only been "talked to" once about them about 10 years ago. I say go for it, they are a classic item that will never go out of style.
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Member #1049
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Troy Montana
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
That's great I can finally legally run them!! (you can barely see them in the picture) Cant tell you how many tickets I recieved for them..(that was 30 years ago)
I used to keep a "normal pair" of tail light lenses under the seat when an officer threaten to impound my truck.. |
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Mtn. Home, Idaho
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
Got ticketed for them once (in WA)took it to court asked the sludge to show me the RCW, WAC, or in general the "Law" concerning this
"infraction" he spent about 15-20 min. looking thru the regs and finally slammed his hammer down "Dismissed" Wohoo dont win to many. Been runnin em since on my Harley and the Burb. Havnt been hasseled here in Idaho for em .....yet! |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: St. Johns, Arizona
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
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TITLE 49 MOTOR VEHICLES CHAPTER 9 VEHICLE EQUIPMENT 49-910.Color of clearance lamps, side marker lamps, and reflectors. (1) Front clearance lamps and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color. (2) Rear clearance lamps and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color. (3) All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stoplight or other signal device, which may be red, amber, or yellow, and except that the light illuminating the license plate shall be white and the light emitted by a back-up lamp may be white, amber, or red. -- just so you know in case a cop that read the book pulls you over. My '68 was originally sold in Mountain Home. Is there a Chevy dealership there still? Wonder if they have the records still...
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: manchester,nh
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
![]() first things i replaced in favor of LED's, what can i say, i'm 26, LED is my generation ![]() mine were down in the reflector part so they're fully legal, dont have the effect theyre made for though with no bulb behind them.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: St. Johns, Arizona
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
This is where they'd nail you in AZ:
28-931. Lamp colors A. Front clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color. B. Rear clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color. C. All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except that: 1. The stoplight or other signal device may be red, amber or yellow, except on a commercial vehicle, as defined in section 28-2231, the stoplight shall be red and the other signal devices shall be red or amber. 2. The light illuminating the license plate or the light emitted by a backup lamp shall be white.
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Phoenix, Az
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
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I have them on my truck and haven't been stopped yet, (knock on wood). I actually bought new lens's with the dots already installed from "Grumpy's"
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chevy truck fan
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Gilbert, arizona 85298
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
i have them as well & have not had any problems....... i have even been stopped by johnny law & nuthin' said to me about them.
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Account Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Alva Florida
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
i may get some too
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Special Order
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Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
A friend here in MD lost his truck over them (mostly due to the nature of the smoke in the cab.Back in the`80s two friends were in a`70 C/10 with blue dots hauling thier bikes to the motocross races and got pulled for the blue dots.The joint they were smoking didn`t help.
They are illegal here,yet kids get away with running these pointless blue lights at the w/s washers that shine at you coming down the road.Go figure.All blue lights on anything but a cop car are illegal in my state. I think they belong on vehicles that were customized in the`50s.They serve to brighten the teeny tailights on vintage cars.
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454 MAKES IT ROAR
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Essex, U.K
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
No probs in the UK...SO FAR!
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vw guy & now c-10 guy
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Location: Louisville,KY
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
I have set but they arent installed yet...
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Location: Falls City, Nebraska "100 Miles From Nowhere"
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Re: Blue Dot Tail lights...
Blue dots are cool ass hell! Run'em! Dont sweat the small stuff...Frivolous laws are "small stuff!"
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