Rear View Camera
I did what I thought was a very clever and well researched project on the rear view camera. There were several discussions starting on page 10 at post 192.
https://www.gt40s.com/threads/tornado-gt40-in-texas.42186/page-10. There were several follow-up discussions such as 207 on page 11 and others.
The camera was mounted in the upper part of the rear deck at the very top but underneath the rear window. There is a perfect space there for the curved "tag cameras". I mounted a 25:8 wide angle monitor in the cockpit on the roof by the front windshield.
All of this worked ok at night before the rear window was installed. However, . . .
With the rear window installed and in the daytime, the reflection of the eight air filters on the rear window totally overpowers ANY scene behind the car thus making it totally useless. Wasn't I clever in finding that great spot to mount the camera so high up to give a great view rearward!
I could mount the camera with the included mounting bars that attach to the license plate. That would probably be too low to use as a rearview camera but it might work ok as a backup camera; however, I wanted a rearview camera.
I could do that; however the second unanticipated major problem was that the surface of the screen of the monitor was so reflective that in the daytime, all I could see is the reflection of things inside the cockpit and I really couldn't see the TV scene on the monitor. Double foiled...
What I needed is a non-reflective screen on the monitor. If you have noticed the surface of the Samsung TVs don't reflect whereas most other TVs are more of a glass finish and reflect the room. I need that non-reflective screen that is that 25:8 format IF I wanted to mount the camera on the license plate.
A sad end to a long journey. I wanted to post this just to warn others. I'm sure we will find a good solution someday.