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You can get a rear camera that mounts into the license plate holder or more exactly is interregnal with it.

The camera really is the simple part.

The real issue with the Pantera is formalizing where everything will go. The technology keeps advancing by leaps and bounds.

You might find that what you thought was the "cats meow" today is yesterdays technology tomorrow.

The interior of the car does not lend itself well to finding a space for the viewing screen.



Personally in the case of the Pantera I like the viewing screen in the rear view mirror but you will need to swithch from the original to a glass mounted mirror, run all the wires to it, etc.

So far the image available in those units requires a magnifying glass to see. The screen is 1.5" x 1.5" or so. Very small.

Marlin's solution is to put a nice size screen in the car.

Maybe a projection onto the windshield isn't far off? That would work for me.



If you can find a blue tooth version then you just need to run 12v to the mirror and a ground.

I'm interested in this too but the technology needs to settle down some before I decide on the hardware approach that will be the least intrusive.

The car already has enough holes cut into it from previous modifications and I don't even remember what those were for at this point.



A case in point to what I mean is that the current crop of "high tech" cars have a myriad of controls mounted into the steering wheel. I presume that this IS F! car technology but so far I am locked out on that.

If they aren't "blue tooth" devices, how are you going to wire all of them through a rotating hub?

You can, and I have run two through the column but physically there isn't enough room in the space available to run all of those connections by hard wiring in there.

I am told that they are a system called CAN buss. Even so, they require three hard wire connections through the steering with a clock spring type of device.

I don't think this would apply to a camera system though, just instrumentation?



I haven't been able to take any 2016-7 steering wheels off to see how that was done.

It almost seems that the new Lambo's and Ferraris have all of their controls right there in the steering wheel center.

That may be old hat for some but for me that is new technology.


For me a complete wireless camera system would be best.

I keep looking at rear view mirrors for an adaptable system but so far haven't found the right one for the Pantera.

I suppose this is as complicated or simple as one wants to make it?