You have it backwards.
70% tint allows 70% light though
80% tint allows 80% light through
5% tint would only allow 5% light through/ blocking 95% of the light
I already admitted as such.
I also frequently put my shoes on the wrong feet as a kid, and to this day still put my shirts on backward, realizing that halfway on, then pulling it off and turning it around.
Performing simple tasks as plugging in a USB-A takes as many as 4-5 reversals before finally connecting it.
If I don’t do a requested task immediately upon being instructed to, it will never get done. My short-term memory is practically non-existent.
Understanding concepts, such as glass tint percentages, I usually understand them the opposite of what they actually are.
That is what the combination of pre- and post natal exposure to alcohol, nicotene, and God-knows what else(!), along with being called a “dummy” for minor mistakes, such as mis-tying ones shoes, and having to watch my parents argue, even with company over, does to a developing human being.
(See, I can’t even SPELL nicotine). Waste of a F&#king liife…
It sounds like you need to visit a (maybe a few) pro window tint shop and simply ask them just how dark can they tint your windows legally and just let them deal with it, a tint shop will know the laws about window tinting in your area/state and take care of everything else…
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Chris, everyone has their own unique problems. You don’t necessarily need to go deep in details about your issues. No one on this forum is perfect. And you already know this.
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PTSD is now popular to help explain the actions of folks but fetal alcohol syndrome causes wiring to be shorted and disconnected and affects behavior that otherwise may be hard to explain.
A friend adopted a couple kids that suffered from this as well as abuse and deprivation. No matter the home life afterwards, just two years old and they were wired for chaos their entire lives.
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Thanks gentlemen for your understanding.
While mine was not the worst childhood of all, I feel I experienced a ‘perfect storm’ of a combination of the above-mentioned items.
My situation was one of chemical early on, and later, psychological. I summarize my experiences by suggesting that I was “born in a bar” and “raise in Nam”!
It might explain some of my personality fluctuations, in the past, on CarTalk and other automotive online communities.
It’s frankly damn frustrating though, because later on, in my school years, for every one hour of study my peers put into getting passing grades, I had to spend 2-3 hours to score comparably on exams, tests, etc. In job interviews, for years, I was, literally, clueless! I simply had no concept of what the interviewers were asking of me, and even now, still don’t.
Accordingly, I was always relegated to marginal jobs, earning just above minimum wage, employed mostly by temp agencies and third-party contractors.
My 62 Caddy series 62 only has a mirror on the driver’s side.
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I think they say quack.
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It’s always been bass ackwards IMO. The tint spec should list how much light is blocked by the tint, not the transmission %. The presence of tint results in blocking light. So it is natural to correlate the amount of tint with the amount of light blockage, not the other way around. The industry did this to themselves. Kinda like wire colors for AC. Black is hot. But things get white hot, not black hot. I get white is a neutral color but to me makes more sense the other way around. And the saying would be better too- White is hot and on the right… but nooooo! 
One of the advantages of growing up in the 50&60s, building model car kits. Kits had the options of dual mirrors, dual spotlights, dual antennas. I added dual fake spotlights to my 49 Studebaker convertible. I owned seven cars until I got one with factory dual mirrors, my 72 Satellite Sebring Plus.
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Here are some of the options for that ‘60 Falcon. Backup lights aren’t even listed, and it didn’t come with them as standard. Ah, the ‘good old days’…
No, but it does list the cigarette lighter as an important safety item.
Backup lights weren’t required until 1966 if I remember correctly so I’m not surprised that an entry-level car doesn’t have them in 1960.
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We added a backup light to my ‘64 1/2 Mustang.
Here’s what the lighting option included for the ‘65 Mustang and Falcon:
In 1976, I bought a 1960 Falcon from a friend’s Grandmother, and it was a true Grandma car. It had no optional equipment, other than automatic transmission.
I installed a Panasonic radio & rear speaker, and–aside from acceleration that could be measured with an hourglass–I had a decent car. It had only logged 17k miles in the 16 years that Granny owned it, and aside from normal maintenance, it was never in the repair shop. In fact, I bought it as a backup car for the frequent times when my '74 Volvo was in the shop.
Our 57 ford fairlane 500 had backup lights standard. Our 61 Chevy biscayne did not. The Impala version had three lights with the center light the backup light. The belaire version had two lights but don’t remember if one was the backup.
Correct me if I am wrong. Wasn’t the Fairlane 500 top or near top trim level?
Whereas Biscayne were stripped down to bare essentials, for a 61 that would be a 409, later 60s Biscaynes could be ordered with 427s.
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First vehicle I ever custom ordered was my 1984 GMC pickup. They didn’t have set packages back then (at least most american manufacturers didn’t). Much of the vehicle was Alacarte. I had to order carpeting, back seats (i had extended cab), radio..and many other things that are pretty much standard. One thing that threw me for a loop, was when I went to pick the truck up 6 weeks later I noticed it didn’t come with a rear bumper. Back in 84 rear bumpers on pickups were optional. Dealer wanted $400 for their plastic bumper so I went to a local supplier and bought a steel one for $150.
Yeah. We went from top of the line ford in 57 to base model Chevy wagon, the biscayne in 58. Then repeated it in 61. One car family and needed it for fishing and hunting and commuting. Then got a falcon for commuting and got more luxurious.
Side view mirrors were not needed when the county only had two lane roads. The advent of the multi-lane roads made the side view mirrors necessary. BTW, my 90 Dodge Colt only had one side view mirror.
Pickups did not come with rear bumpers so you could choose your own aftermarket. Common to see heavy duty step bumpers with trailer hitch. Occasionally see a vice mounted on the bumper. Back then trucks were more often used as trucks.