Mirrors & changing times

C Body Bob

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I parted my first car in 1979. It was a 63 Chrysler New Yorker. I believe I still have the cylinder heads buried in my barn. Anyway that was a different era. No internet. No swap meets. Not a lot of interests in any car that wasen't from the 50's. As the 80's came along I parted a few more & ever increasing & by the end of the decade there was quite the interest in A,B & E body stuff. I even got hooked up with a local old junk yard & parted a few for him. One thing that I saw a lot was many cars had a mirror in the glove box or console. Sometimes in a bag in the trunk. Just a regtangle piece of mirror glass. No border trim or handle. I thought that was odd but never really cared much more than that. Then one day I asked a guy while I was cleaning out a car & he enlightened me LOL. One of those "oh" moments LOL. Over the next few years as the 90's came along I paid more attention to the junk I removed from these old cars. I was amazed. Lots of mirrors, boot leg cassette tapes, knives, bullets, magazines, bail bondsman cards, you name it. Folks would leave it behind. That all changed as the decade closed out. The last car I've had that had a mirror glass was about 10 years ago. I bought a 64 Dodge B body car to flip. Now days I see empty pill bottles with no label. Bootleg CD's. I'm seeing a lot of symbols & some on jewelry. I'm not sure if it's a gang or cult or movement. What on earths going on out there folks. Ofcourse I still see a lot of receipts & parking/traffic tickets too
 
I found a couple of rifle shells in the trunk of the Imp and of all things, a small frog carcass under the interior carpet. The shells are still in the trunk.
 
I found an insurance binder for a mobile home in Florida behind the glove box in my Grand Marquis. Looked like a retirement type property as there was also a local address listed.

I also found this broken drill in my 300. It was up behind the dash where you could only get to it with the dash out. Most likely tossed in there by a assembly line worker.

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One thing that I saw a lot was many cars had a mirror in the glove box or console. Sometimes in a bag in the trunk. Just a regtangle piece of mirror glass. No border trim or handle. I thought that was odd but never really cared much more than that. Then one day I asked a guy while I was cleaning out a car & he enlightened me LOL.

So don't leave me hanging LOL. :drama:

They way you lay it out insinuates it was for something other than a lady checking her make up. Cocaine use?

or was it that cars started coming with mirrors under the passenger visor?
 
So don't leave me hanging LOL. :drama:

They way you lay it out insinuates it was for something other than a lady checking her make up. Cocaine use?

or was it that cars started coming with mirrors under the passenger visor?

stole my thunder, Bry. was just thinking the same thing...booger sugar.
 
Jeannie can't believe there's no vanity mirror in the Imp..
 
No that's what he said it was for. I felt naive having to have been told that
That's a good thing...

I had a lawyer once tell me that it was good that I don't know my way around the courthouse. It meant that I have never been in trouble.
 
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