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What is this Strange Gadget in My Car?

Posted by Cliff on from the automotive-mystery dept.

VanessaDannenberg asks: "Four months ago my fiancé and I bought a 1997 Thunderbird, which came with a few aftermarket mods. Of particular interest is this strange radio-related gadget that was attached to the windshield above the mirror. It has two 5-pin ports on it (as pictured) which accept a flat cable that runs under the car's headliner. I can't tell where that cable ends, but I figure it's a laptop interface (RS232?). Has anyone seen this thing before? What does it do?"

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  1. Didn't have time to make it to... by leonbrooks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WayBack or Google's cache either. Reminds me of Scrat and the glacier.

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