I read that the two-part tail lights on a late 1957 Speedster should have a two-filament bulb on outer half as the turn signal and brake, and the inner bulb as the running light. But I’m not sure if this is true. My Vintage Speedster has the outer two-filament bulb as its turn signal and running lights, and the inner bulb as the brake light. Which, or what, is correct?
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What you heard is correct, but I changed mine to match yours. I'm using the Euro-style (amber outer and red inner) lenses and having amber brake lights just seemed wrong.
and having amber brake lights just seemed wrong.....and not legal either :~)
Yeah, but I have two red auxiliary brake lights. Heck, nobody can see 'em in the daylight anyway.
Get Cu layered LED lights those can be seen
put a third eye in the grill and get a flash circuit from kahtec ... You will be seen 
I have LED tail lights, but the still get somewhat washed out by the sun.
I find that LED's are not always equal... Jim Franzen's lights have many many LED's it might be worth a try for you to compare them.... Lately the LED flashlights for example went from 100lumens to like 350 to even 1250 lumens with Cree ... now that is a knife... (Crocodile Dundee) I mean light...
Hi, just a question guys. I have Euro lights (I'm in Britain) as per Lane. I have seen all red teardrop lights. How do they work ? I know they have to have stop, side and indicators but don't know how they work in an all red light.
I set mine up the same as yours and Vintage, such that the outer bulb is dual filament and gives me directional and running lights. Did it that way because somewhere I read that the running lights should be as far out to the corner of the car (any car) as possible - same thing for the directionals - push them to the corners. It just seemed to make sense, at the time.
The brake lights are single filament on the inside as it doesn't matter as much where the brake lights come on, mostly just that they DO come on. I also have a 2-bulb third brake light up over the engine cover at about eye level for following drivers (if they're driving a Fiat 500). Got plenty of brake lights showing.
The US-style (all red) lights have the brake lights and turn signals in the outboard lights with the running lights inboard.
I've set mine up to use dual filament bulbs for inner and outer and brake and taillights on both. It's wired like a bus with the brake and turn signal sharing the same bulb using a 69 bus turn signal stalk. Bright tail lights, Bright turn signals and a third brake light, at least I feel safer! If the 356 gestapo find out they'll stop me.
