Cornering Lights (parking lamps)

Short answer: The “cornering light” in the catalogs wasn’t a true cornering light. On 1968s it was a two-bulb front turn-signal/parking/side-marker lamp — a partition in the lens with an extra single-filament bulb at the rear that acted as a side marker. It lit only when the headlamps or parking lamps were on (it’s not like the true cornering lamps on Bonnevilles and GTOs).

It was standard equipment on all 1968 models, not an option, and was phased out around early September 1967 as a running change. Some original cars were built without it, with the extra wire and socket clipped off and taped back into the harness (the parts book tells service to do the same). Early-September cars appear to be the last with the two-bulb setup.

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