Hot Rods What hangs from your rear view mirror

I had a Rat Fink air freshener hanging in my daily driver for 9 years. I got a traffic violation for it last month. "Obstruction of view". Lame.


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That's exactly why there is nothing hanging from my mirror

 

I used to have a pair of cubes on a string that looked like stupid dice at first glance, but they had no spots. If you looked closer, they were actually Borg Cubes (it's a Star Trek thing). Only one person ever commented on them, I congratulated him on being the second biggest nerd at the car show.

They were hard plastic and rattled like hell, and the joke was kind of done after one summer anyway, so they left. Now it's nothing on the mirror, but the hula girl hangs from a dash knob over the trans tunnel. My kid won't let me get rid of her.


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nothin'. don't like extra stuff/clutter.

 

Nothing, any car I get in to drive I remove all that shit and put it on the floor......oh, but the stuff you guys have hanging around is cool

 

LOL, this thread has really brought out the snob in some members! I can literally FEEL the contempt as they haughtily condemn any lowbrow who deigns to suspend some interesting and/or treasured heirloom from their rear view mirror!
Ha ha, sneer away gentlemen:

 

My god man, how can you even see where you're going with all that clutter obstructing your view? You sir, are a rolling menace on the highways!!!

 

My ears.

 

Here's a picture of whats hanging from my mirror:

 

WTF's a rear view mirror?

 

My rear view mirror barely stays up as it is...it sure doesn't need any help from something pulling on it...

Note to self: Add "fix rear view mirror" to list of things to work on so I don't have to continually move it so I can see behind me...

 

I'm a sucker for dime store/carnie mirror hangers. This old jeweled eyed skull matches the yellowed interior in my cabriolet. JohnnyA

 

A bigger mirror lol


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One very small compass,comes in handy.


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A small wooden cross given by a friend in HS.

 

It's an air unfresheser. Park in the sun on a warm day , hang one of these little babies from your mirror and roll up the windows. By the time the smell goes away you will never be bothered by minor stinky stuff again. I hate rat rods!

 

One ticket in nine years for an iconic piece of rodding history....I sure hope it is still hanging there! I'll send you the spinach for the next ticket nine years from now.

 

My high school tassel from 1960.

 

Highly interesting - a real conversation piece.
Thanks for contributing to the thread.

 

Nothing in my old car, my handicap sticker in my daily.

 

Same in MN.

 

It's been said that a competent state trooper can find at least eleven equipment violations on a brand new vehicle off the showroom floor. If they want to pull you over, they can - if not the mirror, then something else.

If placating the police is your primary consideration when building and equipping a car, we'll all soon be driving Volvos.

 

Is everyone on this thread 80 years old?
Live it up, be a badass outlaw hot rodder and hang a Little Tree air freshener from your mirror!

 

yep it is , a air freshener in the nice community of naperville cost me $100 ( after court costs ) , but the posers on the unmuffled Harleys that passed us were ok ...

my American legion Poppy collection is on the visor..

 

man thats a UGly chicken you ran over , hate to see what the other end looked like ... LOL

 

my $.02 worth (that's in inflated dollars)....I've been in 3 accidents in 52 yrs of driving. Two on motorcycles and one in a car. First mc accident (low speed)....she "didn't see" and pulled out in front of me. Had enough mardi gras beads to cover Dolly Parton hanging from mirror. Car accident (high speed)..... Insert everything from mc accident but substitute "religious items" and "keep Jimmy Swaggert in hairspray". Oh, the other mc accident???? 87 year old man running away from nursing home in daughters car! He couldn't see s**t and nothing was hanging from mirror.

Seriously, nobody has listed anything (mementos, religious items, air fresheners, shrunken heads, etc that could not be hung from dash or some other place in car.

"I don't care if it rains or freezes, as long as I've got my plastic Jesus, riding on the dashboard of my car"

 

Nothing but cob webs if I don't drive it enough. Darn cob's anyway. Jim

 

This tragedy could have been prevented...if only he'd taken the tassel off his rear view mirror...

 

a "WITNESS" when you need one!
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check the rear view mirror, it's difficult to see in this pic, but, it's a videocam as well that records EVERYTHING that goes on in front of my Merc -- IF I'd HAD it in 2011 [ exzactly three YEARS ago yesterday, the 10th of August ] I'da HAD a PROVEABLE arguement to the driver that deSTROYED my Beulah -- then LIED about the circumstances!

SINCE my unfortunate experience, I've become a STRONG advocate of dashcams! -- and *this* one is a REAL GOODun -- https://www.youtube.com/user/SanDiegoHighwayman and the price has gone down since I got mine It fits our oldtimey *thin* mirrrors GREAT! and gives a larger REAR view with a small video screen on the right side showin what it's recordin -- [ ignore *that* when yer drivin ]

a similer "occurrance" nearly happened *here* if this idiot driver had made contact, I'da had PROOF positive of their ignorant, selfish behaviour


a beautiful, intricate, bolo tie [ swap meet find ] hangs from it

>chuckle< flame on

 

I didn't realize the leading cause of accident s was shit on the mirror its a scary world out there ..52 ford for sale! includes shrunken skunk head and fossilized great white tooth