  The classical tests of general relativity (perihelion precession, deflection
of light, and the radar echo delay) are considered for the Dadhich, Maartens,
Papadopoulos and Rezania (DMPR) solution of the spherically symmetric static
vacuum field equations in brane world models. For this solution the metric in
the vacuum exterior to a brane world star is similar to the Reissner-Nordstrom
form of classical general relativity, with the role of the charge played by the
tidal effects arising from projections of the fifth dimension. The existing
observational solar system data on the perihelion shift of Mercury, on the
light bending around the Sun (obtained using long-baseline radio
interferometry), and ranging to Mars using the Viking lander, constrain the
numerical values of the bulk tidal parameter and of the brane tension.
