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Old 04-27-2016, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by CR67rep View Post
Whoever built my car put a newer style manually dimming mirror (flip tab when your blinded) that is designed to be glued on a windshield and mounted it on the dash. Does it look period correct? Nope. BUT it stays put and when all these lovely HID headlights in the SUVs and trucks are me I can flip the tap and not be blinded
I had one of those, also mounted on the dash. Every time I accelerated hard in 1st gear and sometimes 2nd, the mirror wanted to fold flat. Had to re-adjust it way too often.

Replaced it with the period correct version (from FFR) and the problems went away.
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