Today I saw a white 244 DL with tail lights that looked kind of unusual. It had the newer style (6 similiarly-sized lights, not the 5 with the tall one on the inside), but it appears that there were additional half-sized blocks on the innermost part. Two red rectangles, just like the other ones but half the width, were on the inside part of each tail light, bringing the total to eight rectangle lights, not six.

The headlights were the dual rectangles, not the giant ones used at the end of the series.

I also noticed that, although the majority of the car was white, the inner part between the tailights (like around the license plate area on the back of the trunk) was red. Besides giving it a real '80s look (at least it seemed that way to me), it appeared to be something I had never seen before: I can only recall 240s of a single color that was used for all parts, including the area around the license plate.

Has this car been repainted and had the lights modified, or did the models from the mid-80s have these extra lights and different paint colors on the back?

One last point--the tailights, while braking, that lit up were the outside bottom (below the blinker) and inside top (not the half light, but the top inside of the "original" six panels). I couldn't remember what 240s look like while braking, but is this pattern standard? I can't remember if the fog lights (activated by the switch near the rheostat) are normally on the top or the bottom of the inside light panels.