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 |
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