It has 2-way flashers! I was just kidding!

I had something a number of years that was caused by a bad ground. Thats the trouble of one wire circuits!

 

I know.

 

I want someone else with a 72 to try...
A lot of this depends on the exact operation of the hazard switch - the way it makes before breaks or breaks before makes...

 

have had many customers call me they had Cutlasses or Montys interior & dome lights wont shut off I ask doy have a 5 or 6 yr old child ??????when they say yes go pull the Cig lighter out & replace fuse. The kids shoes just reach the lighter sticking out of the dash hold it in untill fuse blows reversing a circuit, If I wasn't honest could have made alot of $ off that one some people had already replaced the HL S/W larry@vintageozarks

 

Saw that done in 1968 on new Chrysler products. However, it didn't work on my dad's new '68 Oldsmobile.

 

I could listen to the radio with no key in my dad's '69 Mercury Marquis. My friend's dad had one as well and he taught me how to do it.

 

Was the 4-way flasher an option in 1965?
Something about this post triggered a memory way down deep in the vast waste land of my 59 year old brain......it's trying to surface, will come to me soon, yeah probably at three in the morning. But it's something about my Dad's brand new 67 Le Mans. I was 16 and listening to the radio with some combination of turnsignal/brake/4-way flasher......just can't recall the specifics. This is when you had to order your car. HE TOLD ME HE WAS BUYING A GTO!!!!!. came home with a red lemans.... Buckets without a console auto shift on the column ??? Why?? He says your mom don't want it.. Okay , thirty five years later he calls me and say's" I figured out what she meant, it wasn't the console she was telling me not to get, it was standard shift." Still should have bought a GTO!!

 

4 ways were not an option that I know of but the 67 Cutlass and LeMans would both have had it as standard for that year, and yes, they would have reacted similarly. You make 4! Thanks, great story!

 

They were mandated by law beginning with the 1968 model year, but many manufacturers began putting them on their 1967 cars. I don't think they were ever offered as an option. Before the advent of the four-way flashers, people used to just turn on their left or right turn signal as a warning light, so I don't think anyone ever felt like they were missing anything by not having a four-way, so there was never a demand for it as an option. Of course, you couldn't leave your turn signal on and walk away from your car if it was disabled the way you can with the four-ways as the key was required for the turn signals to work, and you wouldn't walk away from your car and leave the key in the ignition, disabled or not. So the turn signal wasn't quite as useful as the four-way, but if you could stay with your car, it worked well enough.

 

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Woe is me! What to do?

Without 4-way flashers, I better keep this thing running at all times!

I really forgot how things were before the flashers....
They are truly a great safety feature and all it took was another bunch of contacts and a switch.

No, I cannot play my original transistorized AM radio by tricking it with the flashers, and I really hope to see it in person someday!

All of you folks with a '67 up are truly blessed!

Happy Listening,

--Don

 

my 66 ss chevelle had 4 ways that looked like they were dealer installed

 

There was a study done around here in dallas and it was found that flashing lights on the side of the road late at night were considered more hazardous than helpful.
They attracted drunk drivers just like like moths to a porch light or managers to meetings...
They would stare at the lights and naturally you have a tendancy to drive where you are looking.
The study was done after numerous emergency or disabled vehicles were rear ended at high speeds on non-crowded highways.
Around here it is best to try to get off the busy roads any way you can and park in a safer place, lights off, hood up. Of course parts of the car might be stolen if you leave the car for any length of time...