Has anyone found a better substitute for ths stock sun visors?
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I have had my car since 1985 and it did not have sunvisors when I bought it and it still doesn't. Florida allows you to tint the top 4 inches of the windshield and between that and sunglasses I have not had the need for visors here in the "Sunshine" state. My headliner is not original, I have always assumed the first or second owner eliminated them at some point.
Gary #06984
Gary #06984
Sun visors seem pretty generic. You'd think they came from another car. Anyone looked into this or have any ideas?
Put tint on the whole front window, I did mine real with light tint, hard to tell and works great
I suppose this means no?
quote:I suppose this means no?
Doug,
I too have thought about upgrading those small, only flip down visors.
I'd like something perhaps a bit larger (there isn't much room for that), on a swivel, and perhaps with a pull-out auxiliary shade for use when flipped to cover the side windows.
It is on my long term - "let's go to the automotive parts recycling yard
and see what we find" list.Larry
So many of them require a socket hole in the roof rail like my Taurus SHO does.
This is also where the power comes from for the vanity mirrors.
I was thinking of replacing the vanity mirror with a flip down tv monitor screen for a back up camera. It could double as a night vision screen for when I'm running in the stealth mode at night for those 220mph runs.
I would have presumed that many have done something like that already.
Of course perhaps my perspective is limited and perhaps most have updated to a weapons screen in the windshield like the F18 uses? Then they don't need to do anything with the visors. Yep, that must be it. That makes sense.
This is also where the power comes from for the vanity mirrors.
I was thinking of replacing the vanity mirror with a flip down tv monitor screen for a back up camera. It could double as a night vision screen for when I'm running in the stealth mode at night for those 220mph runs.
I would have presumed that many have done something like that already.
Of course perhaps my perspective is limited and perhaps most have updated to a weapons screen in the windshield like the F18 uses? Then they don't need to do anything with the visors. Yep, that must be it. That makes sense.
I spent days in scrap yards and took over a dozen different visors that sure looked like they would fit.
But the way the visor bracket screws into the trim around the headliner, no visor will fit the angle of the Pantera if you want them to fold down and swing out like modern visors.
In the end we just fabbed one to fit. Using hardware from a Jaguar - although many other ones can be modified - it was a 30 minute job for an upholstery shop. Now my visors are big enough to actually cut out the sun.
They swing out perfectly which is great for those long trips when the sun is beating down on you from the side.
But the way the visor bracket screws into the trim around the headliner, no visor will fit the angle of the Pantera if you want them to fold down and swing out like modern visors.
In the end we just fabbed one to fit. Using hardware from a Jaguar - although many other ones can be modified - it was a 30 minute job for an upholstery shop. Now my visors are big enough to actually cut out the sun.
They swing out perfectly which is great for those long trips when the sun is beating down on you from the side.
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