Re: 66 California Satellite w/ 68 Markers?

[Bill Watson <wwatson6@xxxxxxx>]

California had no such law.  An uncle who lived in LA owned a 1966 Fury
Sport Suburban and it did not have side marker lights.  Nor has any 1966 or
1967 car with California plates that I have seen.    I have lots of road
tests done by Motor Trend, Car Life and Road & Track over the years.  All
three were based in California and not one of them tested a car, complete
with California plates, with side marker lights prior to 1968.

Chrysler's 1968 side marker lights were round, and thus very easy to install
by anyone who knew how to use an electric drill.   I have seen them on 1965
cars here in Western Canada.

As for the '66' on the lens, what else was on there?  Specifically, what
preceded and followed the '66'?

I would mark this up to someone trying to cover a previous owner's
modification the cheap way - claim it was done by the manufacturer due to
some obscure (read non-existant) local law.  And it is made easier when the
supposed law is for a jurisdiction on the other side of the continent.   Or
the previous owner suckered him into the story and he is just repeating what
he was told.

Bill
Vancouver, BC



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Maurits" <y1topbanana73@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "62-65 Mopar List" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: 66 California Satellite w/ 68 Markers?


> I ran into a guy this last Friday night @ the local cruise @ Lowes in
> Abingdon, MD. He had a very nice, clean, white 66 Satellite 2 dr, 318
> poly, auto, console, w/ ROUND 68 MARKER LIGHTS. When I asked him about
> it he said it was apparently a California car and the markers were
> required by the state in 66...a full 2 years before they showed up on
> production Mopars. I did confirm the date code by inspecting the
> lenses and there was in fact a "66" molded into them. Anyone seen this
> before? I just thought it extremely odd.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill M
> 65 Coronet 500 'vert, 73 Dart Sport,
> 00 Cherokee Sport, 01 Dakota CC SLT 2wd,
> 21 MOdel T Depot Hack, 92 Accord LX
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