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Old Apr 10, 2002 | 06:49 AM
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Maybe a stupid question, but what are they? And do they have them for Firebirds too? I see few Camaro owners on here talking about them. <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" />
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Old Apr 10, 2002 | 07:51 AM
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Export taillights have the orange turn siganl to the out side instead of in the middle. And the brake light is in the middle.

Just a differnet arrangement of the lights.

As for a Firebird I do not know. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" />
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Old Apr 10, 2002 | 08:09 AM
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Old Apr 10, 2002 | 11:53 AM
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Default Re: What are export taillights?

Here they are on my old 2001 SS.

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Old Apr 10, 2002 | 02:15 PM
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Oooooh... okay, I've never seen 'em before... very sharp, they wouldn't have them for firebirds... we're all red. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
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Old Apr 12, 2002 | 11:25 PM
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When I was in Austria during Summer 99 I saw a Firebird or TA (4th gen) with the orange turn signals. I have looked and looked (and posted on various boards) for them here but cannot find.
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Old Apr 12, 2002 | 11:30 PM
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Wow.. ive never seen firebird ones.. Camaros had them becaus from 93-96 US Camaros had two color lights but overseas cars were required to have tri colored lights.. in 97 GM went to a new US tri color light (DOT requires red on the outside) and made this the new world standard..

Hence the overseas ones are HARD to find.. took me 6 months..

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Old Nov 11, 2004 | 01:19 PM
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geez that is a lot of posts in a row...
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lol...thats funny this post was made in 2002.. .
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i didn't even notice that
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Does anybody happen to know the official GM part numbers for these taillights? I found it a couple years ago, but no longer have it.
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Old Dec 22, 2004 | 09:53 PM
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for 1993-1996 T90 export cars. They're discontinued, though, since these lights were replaced by the '97-up tri color lenses.
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