Miata Mailing List: May 1999, Message #1

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On 4/30/99 21:00, Tetsuo Honda turbomiata@worldnet.att.net wrote:

>>  At over $100
>> for the mirror itself /from Roebuck/, the idea lost some of its appeal.  
I'll
>> probably do it sooner or later anyway, since on the rare occasions when I 
>have
>> to drive with the top up, I can't see more than a 3" high strip out of the
>> rear window because of the location of the old style mirror.
>
>it would be much cheaper to go with one of those panoramic rear view 
>mirrors that
>clips over the stock.

Tetsuo, it's not the width--it's that the header-mounted mirror is too 
high to see more than a fraction of the rear view. If I adjust the mirror 
to show the whole window, I see lots of trunk and not much road behind me.

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C

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