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Re: mirrors, rules, etc..

To: "Jeffrey Lloyd" <jslz3@hotmail.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: mirrors, rules, etc..
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:52:21 -0600
>I thought that was for external mirrors The wink is that little round
>blind spot jobber that goes on the outside mirror, Right?
>Sorry If I'm being silly here


Wink is a brand name.  Wink makes a number of different kinds of mirrors.

When you are talking to us old-timers, though, a "wink mirror" is their
large multi-panel type used on the inside of closed car or across the front
of the cockpit of an open car.  The panels are flat, but arranged in such a
way that you get a huge panorama of what's behind you without the "objects
in mirror are closer than they appear" effect of a convex mirror.

I had a five-panel wink mirror in my ice-race SAAB.  Hmm.  Wonder who wound
up with it in the shuffle when the team broke up.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
Lotus Europa, VW Quantum Syncro, Chev Suburban
LOON, TCVWC, MAC
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