Road safety regs for CMP's

[Don Dingwall]

Hi:
I'm in Ontario and was wondering what the deal is regarding lighting etc on CMP's according to the DMV, etc.

I'm in the process of trying to reverse engineer some of the myriad wiring changes made in my 44 Chev by the post war owner, and am contemplating redoing the wiring completely as it came out of the factory.

Right now I also have functioning signal lights as well, but I'd like to hook up the side lights, rear running lights etc, thru their appropriate switches.

Is this ok since it's an historic vehicle or will they shit all over me?

Thanks
Don

[chris vickery]

As far as I know Don, historic vehicles technically only have to have equipment as issued at time of manufacture. This is somewhat assinine though, as back then we didn't have the traffic. For safety, anyone I know has added the appropriate lights to bring their vehicle to current standards. On my cmp, I have original lighting as well as additional markers front and rear. One thing to consider is by-passing the stop light isolation switch so you always have brakelights no matter what (something I fixed recently on mine) . Another thing to bypass is the blackout isolation feature if so equipped.