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Before It Disappears - One Last Look in the Rearview Mirror

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Peter Els
Peter Els
02/23/2017

Rearview mirrors have been around for more than a hundred years, but few people are aware that the first rearview mirror fitted to a car played a pivotal role in delivering a race win! Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, mostly thanks to him fitting a mirror to his Marmon Wasp while all the other competitors had to drag around a “riding mechanic” to tell them when cars were close behind or coming up alongside them.© technologyvistaNow, a little over a century later, the mirror fa...
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