Quirky car, redux
Jul. 17th, 2003 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethAll that nonsense with the tape player led me to discover another of the car's quirks.
I had already observed that it had no mirrors on the backs of the sun visors. I didn't really expect a 1989 car to have one on the driver's side, but I was a little surprised to not find one on the passenger side. I shrugged my shoulders and bought a clip-on mirror for the driver's side.
Well, when I went to stuff the mangled Rolling Stones tape in the glove compartment today (1989. No airbags. An actual glove compartment), I noticed a raised, flat square on the right hand side of the inside of the glove compartment door. The left-hand side, I'd already noticed, has a shallow circular depression, obviously a primitive forerunner of the Sacred Cup Holder. I fiddle with the flat thing, and it flips up, and voila! A mirror!
Is this a Swedish-car thing? Do Saabs have the vanity mirror in the glove compartment too? Or is it just another Quirk?
I had already observed that it had no mirrors on the backs of the sun visors. I didn't really expect a 1989 car to have one on the driver's side, but I was a little surprised to not find one on the passenger side. I shrugged my shoulders and bought a clip-on mirror for the driver's side.
Well, when I went to stuff the mangled Rolling Stones tape in the glove compartment today (1989. No airbags. An actual glove compartment), I noticed a raised, flat square on the right hand side of the inside of the glove compartment door. The left-hand side, I'd already noticed, has a shallow circular depression, obviously a primitive forerunner of the Sacred Cup Holder. I fiddle with the flat thing, and it flips up, and voila! A mirror!
Is this a Swedish-car thing? Do Saabs have the vanity mirror in the glove compartment too? Or is it just another Quirk?
