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Subject:Re: Seeing out the back window on a Westy w/ AC
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:06:57 -0800

Brent,

I mucked around for a couple of hours one afternoon with a spare mirror and
a magnet to see how dash placement would work (I have a 1.5" diameter thin
steel disk glued close to the front and in the centre of the dash - PO's
doing).

I seem to remember being less than overwhelmed by the view that I achieved.

Perhaps you can use some modelling clay (as a base) and a spare mirror to to
same experiment?

Alistair

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'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
albell@uvic.ca
http://homepage.mac.com/alistairbell/home/

on 19/03/2002 7:55 AM, Brent Christensen at sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM wrote:

> On my drive to the office this morning, I got to thinking that if the rear
> view mirror was mounted on the dash instead of the roof, that a clear view
> out the back window could be had.  Has anyone tried this?  Is there a good,
> OEM-looking rear view mirror that would be suitable for dash mounting that
> anyone knows of?
>
> Just curious and tired of not being able to see out the back!  (And no, I
> don't want one of those "Fresnel" lens thingies - way too '70's for me!
> :-)
>
>
> Brent Christensen
> '89 GL Syncro Westy
> Santa Barbara, CA
>
>
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