LEDs?
This isnt a pissing match
IS TOO! :lol:
But your self righteous attitude, that I cant understand the law or regulations, is rather pissy.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but you have not yet shown any evidence of understanding the regulations you're talking about -- for that matter, you haven't even shown a clear or correct understanding of which regulations apply to your car. So…no self-righteousness or pissiness or attitude here, just a couple of facts: (1) You don't know as much as you think you do about this, and (2) I know more than you do about it.
a 1946 Hudson super six that in no way complies with any of those signaling regulations
Right...because those regulations didn't exist when that car was built. The regs did exist, however, when your A-body (along with every other car made after 1/1/68 ) was made, and so the grandfather clauses that apply to your '46 Hudson don't apply to your A-body. Here again, you are throwing around terms and assertions without understanding them.
I think that you perhaps need to understand that the people that frequent this site want to do things for themselves, and are very creative.
Oh, I do understand that. I think
you need to understand that your cars' lighting system is a safety system, which needs to work in the prescribed manner to avoid endangering roadway safety. That's why the regulations exist -- not to clamp down on creativity or independence of spirit, but to save lives.
Look, ignorance is not a failing or a flaw or a shame; it's totally and easily curable. It's not reasonable to expect the average man in the street to know what the lighting regulations mean and how they apply; it's specialized knowledge. Those of us who cooperate to write them -- I am in that group -- spend a great deal of time and effort making them as unambiguous and clear as possible, but the nature of a highly technical, precisely regulated subject is that the regulations will be highly technical and precise. If you get the chance to learn from someone in a firsthand position to know what the regs say, why they say it, and what it all means, jump on it; open your (2) ears and (2) eyes, give your (1) mouth a rest, and learn.
The ugly shame is
willful ignorance, in which the ignorant party refuses to learn and clings to incorrect, baseless beliefs.