In a message dated 8/26/99 6:53:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pasgeirsson@juno.com writes:
<< I too have that problem.  But when I got to thinking about the period
 that these cars were designed in, the traffic signals were on a post on
 the corner, not hanging 20 feet above the street in the middle of the
 intersection.  You didn't need a periscope to see the signals back then. >>
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Nope.  In my other post I mentioned that the 1958 Chevy had a dash reflector 
as an option to see overhead traffic lights.  I'm sure they were used more in 
bigger cities.  (Overhead lights, not '58 Chevys.)  I remember overhead 
lights all thru Atlantic City, NJ when I was a kid back in the '50s.
Allen Hefner
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
 
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