Traffic Light Viewer/prism? How to mount?

I hear you on the traffic light situation.

When I put my Model A back together, it will be mildly chopped, and will be equipped with a visor with flared holes.

My plan is to put an HD rear view camera on the edge of the center hole, and to put a color screen above the windshield, out of external sight.

Yeah, I know, not traditional, but neither are 4-6 lane traffic lights every 500-feet.

 

I use mine on my 32 roadster when I put the top on, I stick the cup part behind the rear view with the prism part hanging down, works great and you don't see the cup from inside.

 

Would a clear marble work as a kind of traffic light prism? I built a ten-inch barn tin visor for my Crosley, and aside from sticking my head out the window, there really isn't going to be a good way for me to know when the light is green. I thought maybe I could find a way to mount a clear marble in the visor itself.. Just tossing ideas around in my head.

 

Possibly. It would need to be big enough for you to see arrows, etc.

 

I've got a smaller suction-mounted prism that works ok, but does need to be bigger. Approaching a light is it's downfall. You almost have to be front row to discern between a light and an arrow. Otherwise, it works well enough for green/yellow/red.
I did discover, before I picked this up, that I could catch reflections of the lights off of my chromed radiator surround, and I tried a convex spot mirror stuck to my air cleaner, but they both lack in detail. They'll work in a pinch, but......

Roger

 

I threw mine in the trash and bought one of these....THESE ARE AWESOME!
I actually trimmed mine down smaller and it works GREAT and look at my chopped top...it is radical...
Buy one of these and you will not be sorry I promise!
http://www.lightinsight.com

 

At some point, you have got to decide "safety" vs "tradition". Looks like you've gone over to the safety side which is fine, if you are happy with that. My original post was, like, 9 years ago (!!!). I still use the prism, but I now have a small overhead radio console in my A coupe and inverted the prism and have it hanging from a chrome rod below the console. PM me if anyone wants a photo. I try to stop a bit back form the line if I am first at a light. Otherwise, the prism works fine. It's a stop light, not a "Christmas Tree" and I don't need to be first off the line.

 

Where'd you manage to find an inverted prism, or did you fab up a mount for it?
Yes, please post a pic.

Roger

 

??? who are you talking to...? Inverted prism...?

 

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Sorry, Okee, I was referring to 5window's last post. Yeah, I should have quoted him.

 

This thread was started over 13 years ago. If the OP doesn’t have an answer yet, he probably doesn’t care anymore.


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hey i care

 

I care, too.

 

I'll add this. Here's a cheap, and easy idea. I used this old perfume bottle. Anything acrylic or gl*** will do. Then just add a little Velcro, to hold it on. I can see the red or green in the legs, with out bending over to look for the traffic light. It works for me.

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Well, I finally made it out through the slush to the shop today for some photos. And, in retrospect, I guess I mis-spoke a bit. I started with one of those suction cup on the windshield prisms and remounted it to hang from the overhead radio box. So, it's not really inverted, but it is hanging from the roof as opposed to those that mount on the dash. Here are a couple of rough photos, let me know if anyone wants more detail.

 

What I did was to find a spot in a parking lot, then move my truck around a bit until I had a top of a light pole aproximately where a stoplight might hang.
Then I kept adjusting and moving around my prism until I could spot the light pole easily from my driving position.
Then I found that there is another common middle-road position for a stoplight, so now I have two prisms clipped to the windshield gasket.
Sometimes a light on the side shows up in one prism, sometimes a center light shows up in the other, sometimes a middle light shows up in both.
Nothing gets by me now.


WHY BE ORDINARY ?

 

Or you could just wait for the blaring of the horn behind you.

 

This is a gl*** one I got at Cantor. Very useful in a '29 CCPU with a visor. The windshield does close.

 

Over the blown Hemi?!

 

They do make a magnetic mounting base that will fit the viewer that denis 4x4 has on his roadster. Works pretty good and no holes.

 

Yep, until you have to slam on the brakes and create a magnetic missile headed toward your head.

 

If you slam on the brakes isn't your HEAD the missile headed toward the viewer?

 

True at first, then it goes back, but the same difference. A .sharp object ti stick your head into