A lil history: I am not sure when MB first installed the breakaway
mirror in production cars, but for a decade or two (maybe more) while
Deeriot and other carmakers were screwing a potmetal headslicer
mirror to the windshield, MB was quietly saving lives, heads and
faces by using the breakaway mirror and using plastic for the mirror
head. I know all the PKW after 1959 had the breakaway mirrors.
Dimitri, Did the pontons also have this?
Just another thing I loved about my first MB, a 1962 110/OM621 with
its weird but lovable glass cylinder speedometer.
I also tried to put it back on the ball on the arm, and ended up
popping the arm out of the socket up at the top of the windshield,
it has a bigass spring in there too, with some kind of little rods
on each end, that looks hard to push back in, but I guess it will
with some force?
Yes, but don't bother 'til you get the replacement, since
it's all one part. A little oil helps.
-- Jim
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