1966 Charger Side marker Lights

[DantimosCharger]

I am almost done restoring my 1966 Dodge Charger and I am running into an issue finding parts for the side marker lights in the fenders and Qtrs, they are factory and the car is a one owner former Dodge regional managers company car.

are the side marker lights hard to find, I can reuse the old ones but they are very rough.

[Kern Dog]

In American Chargers, 1968 was the first year that the feds required side marker lamps. There were no factory built 1966 or 1967 Chargers with side marker lamps OR reflectors.

[Kern Dog]

Don't believe me? Do a google search on 1966-67 Charger images. You will not find a correct original car with them.

[VegasCharger]

Looks like a 1972 and up side marker morphed into that 1966 fender.

[A383Wing]

No side marker lights in the 66-67 Charger, not until 68 did they become mandatory

[Bronzedodge]

Somewhere I read that the federal spec read lights OR reflectors, theough 69 model year. So they took the cheap way out until 70, when the spec changed to lights.   

[A383Wing]

You read wrong. 68 were lights. 69 was reflectors. 70 & up were lights again.

There was no lights or reflectors in 66 or 67 chargers

[Bronzedodge]

I wasn't clear, sorry.  Not really relevant to his original question, but I found it on Allpar:

REGULATION: FMVSS #108 for sidemarker lights and reflectors specifies amber front and red rear sidemarker lamps and reflectors. The regulation initially required lights OR reflectors on vehicles made after 1 January 1968. This was amended to require lights AND reflectors on vehicles made after 1 January 1970. These side-facing devices make the vehicle's presence, position and direction of travel clearly visible from oblique angles. The lamps are wired so as to illuminate whenever the vehicles parking and tail lamps are on.

At Chrysler we decided to do side marker lights in 1968. All vehicles except Imperial used the same side marker light design. Except for the difference in lens color they were the same lamp for the front fender and rear quarter panel. This simplification saved us a lot of money and let us do the design and engineering job a lot quicker than if we had to do unique lights or unique reflectors for each carline.

During the 1968 model year we got a new Product Development (Product Planning, Styling and Engineering) Vice President by the name of Leroy Bornhouser. We called him Bornie. Bornie took issue with the appearance of the 1968 side marker lights which he said looked like "whales' eyes." He ordered us to put side markers on the car in 1969 that were more attractive - more integrated with the sheet metal. So in 1969 we went to flush reflectors (no bulbs) that were a different design for each carline and each "crash program" to meet 1969 model production.

The 1969 reflectors didn't meet the amended 1970 standard which required lamps and reflectors so we had to design and tool the side marker indicators again. We did them three times in three years!

— Burt Bouwkamp

[ODZKing]

NO side markers on 66 or 67 Chargers ... correct!   

[Lennard]

I agree with what he said about the '68 Charger side markers. They are standing out to much in my opinion... so I deleted mine.