Many of us who have a military background have learned to distinguish
between *threat* and  *friendly*  vehicles, aircraft, and watercraft.
The Chevy with the four separate lights on each upper pillar was quickly
referred to as *A SOW* Pig farmers would understand.               I have
put a bright orange reflective tape around the two inch center, recessed,
band of my
dark brown van. It compensates for the pathetic excuse of rear lighting on
the vanagons.  VW did a similar thing on the blue-grey vans with a silver
stripe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: LED taillights WAS: Re: repost optional bulb sizes/wattages?

>There's another factor - if you've ever been driving at night and started
>to
>come up on a station wagon or van with the tail lights going up the whole
>rear upper corner............from a long way off it's hard to get a