[Rich69shortfleet]

Yeah, the example I provided a link to was just to show the type of product I was looking at. First problem is the strap on kind of mirror product are all a little too small. My existing mirror is 12 inches across. With the strap on style, the ends of my existing mirror would be peeking out either end of the new mirror, would look janky.

Then the cabling becomes a problem. Much of it is bulky and would need to be run along the windshield gasket and would look half-assed. With modern cars you can put the cables up under the edge of the headliner and a-pillar covers, no such option on these trucks. One option would be to try to run the cable inbetween the outer roof panel and the inner roof panel, but the install of that would get pretty involved.

Then I thought about just getting a system with a dedicated stand-alone monitor screen. But then where would you mount the screen?

I've put backup cameras on more modern cars and it is so easy since you can connect them into the stereo double din headunit to use that screen. Hard to find a way to do this clean on these old trucks without hacking things up a bit. Might not be worth the trouble.