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The only way I see a standard (post 1970) setup fitting there is if I fabricate some brackets to extend it well past the firewall. There is plenty of hood space, there just isn’t much space right there on the firewall since power brakes had just recently become “a thing”.

Perhaps it’s time to get creative, after searching the net. I suspect that someone has found a way to install a conventional booster plus dual circuit master on your vintage dodge.

I would certainly like to but it’s not an easy swap on this particular vehicle. Unlike later Dodges where the new ones bolt right in this one has a weird design. The reservoir and the booster are totally separate pieces. The reservoir is on the firewall but the booster sits behind the engine.

Eh, it found it made the drivers more patient because they knew it was coming and more cars made it through the intersections because there was less lag.

I don’t know if that would help substantially. My boyfriend has red-green colorblindness and he admitted he struggles with lights. The order of the lights is how he tells, but also says the lights blow about in the wind enough to make him unable to tell which light in the sequence is lit. Anyway, he said the movement

They mention Morgan in that History article that is linked, too. His design was a “T” shape, but he did come up with 3 lights.

That’s how stoplights were many, many places until they realized how stupid it was (red - yellow - green no doubt caused some accidents to those not paying attention).

Harrison Arkansas had lights like that up into the ‘80s.

I think these have been implemented through most of Canada. Instead of a Diamond yellow, it is round, while Green has an arrow with whatever direction you can go.

If you’re color blind, you can be legally declined a job at railroads for that one reason. However, it’s the reason why stoplights are in a fixed order with red on top. Railroads are reversed, with red on bottom and green on top, however with lack of standardization prior to the 2000s, this wasn’t always the case.

EU countries tend to use a cycle that goes green, yellow, red, red+yellow, and back to green. Red+yellow is used when the other street’s light is yellow. Part of why we don’t use that system here is street racing, which we have a problem with, already. However, at least in Wisconsin, we are moving to flashing yellow

In the early 1960s, my family visited my mother’s home town, a small town in western Kansas, just as I was learning to drive. All of their stoplights (two or three in total) were on the main street. In an apparent move to save money, they used simple traffic lights whose entire “workings” consisted of a timer and

Most countries (that I’ve been in) don’t use that system. The UK and I think Germany use a red-plus-orange before the green but usually the order is green, orange, red, green.

Quebec takes traffic lights one step further to eliminate confusion. Most lights lie horizontally, with a round green light and a diamond-shaped yellow light in the middle, and two square red lights - one at each end.

It should also be noted that American lights are stupid. In most other developed nations they have lights that use yellow and blinking to signal a light is about to change, informing you that you need to depress the clutch or that you probably won't need to stop.

In the 1990s, on North Carolina Highway 168, the main road from Hampton Roads to the Outer Banks, some of the side streets near the Virginia border had signs at their traffic lights saying that wait times would be 5 minutes in the summer.

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I met Bruce at a hotel downroute during his Astreus years - I think it was somewhere in the Canaries but it was a long time and a crate full of alcohol ago so I wouldn’t bet my life on it - and he’s awesome.

I would like you to view this picture of a 747 being pulled by a tug. Notice how high up the flight deck sits, and how far back the tug is. In most cases, the crew of the aircraft cannot see the tug on these large jets.