I believe that is correct.  More modern cars have the mirrors on both visors.  I found them really handy for checking on passengers and have put one on the driver's visor in my Westy for that purpose.

On Feb 10, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:25:06 +0200
> From:    Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Friday Trivia Question, Westy Owners Only
> 
> I think all cars have those mirrors, actually.  At least all cars I've
> owned had them (okay, that's a small sample - and I didn't know the van had
> one until reading a post above).
> 
> My theory was always that it was a sexist item, assuming women were the
> passengers, and that women wanted to look at themselves in the mirror.
> 
> 
> 
> Joy

Lisa Bloch
lab@rynth.org
'89 camper 2.1L automatic