Interpretation ID: nht68-2.42

DATE: 09/04/68

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Francis Armstrong; NHTSA

TO: Robert Bosch GMBR

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: Thank you for your letter of May 21, 1968, addressing to Mr. Lester D. Johnson, Commissioner of Customs, with a copy to Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of the Department of Transportation, concerning the effect of a joint Customs and Transportation regulation on replacement parts for vehicles manufactured prior to the effective date of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and particulary replacement white parking lamps.

Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108 specifies that the parking lamps on passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks and buses of less than 80 inches overall width shall be two number, amber in color on all such vehicles manufactured after January 1, 1969. Accordingly, these specifications do not apply to the replacement parts required to keep vehicles already manufactured in safe operating condition.