Mirrors

Top o' the fender to ya! 

(And bravo on the "faux rust preservative" finish).

Pipefitter Ed ?  How are ya ? I had a hard time seeing past the post with the Aero mirrors , Might have the girlfriend hold them as we drive , The mirrors that is ! Just wondered if anybody else has had this dilemma before . Hate like hell to start drilling more holes in The Rust Bucket

LC, I was wondering where the heck you had gone off to. And I was also wondering what became of the "Rust Bucket". The car is looking awesome. Unless you can get some mirrors that clamp onto the windshield frame I think you're going to have to drill some holes. A single mirror on the driver's side just ahead of the windshield frame is about the most useful. Too far forward and you can't adjust it and too far back and...................well, it's just too far back.

Man that car must be mater's brother.  nice colours

On mirror placement, the one thing to consider is how much you want to turn your head to see them.

Mount them on the door and you practically HAVE to turn your head to see them.

Mount them on the fender and all you have to do is flick your eyes for an instant.

Whichever way you're comfortable with, THAT's where you want to mount them.

Awesome wrap, BTW - reminds me of an old guy in my local 356 club who got tired of listening to people brag about their mega-bucks paint jobs, so half way through sanding his down he just said "Screw It!" and clear coated over everything just as it was.  Been that way since way before 2002, when I first met him:

I have mine on the door, that is the location I prefer.  No windshield post to get in the view of traffic.

You see a lot of Speedster replicas with twin aero mirrors mounted out on the fenders.

I think this may be because the most prolific vendor, Vintage Speedsters, mounts them there IF you order a passenger side mirror. If you order just the driver's side mirror, they mount that on the door. Their explanation is that the passenger side mirror is too far back if mounted on the door, that it's easier to see if on the fender, so for symmetry they mount both on the fenders. That's how my car was delivered.

After living with fender mounted mirrors for a few years, though, here are my thoughts.

The aero mirror is small. With the stock flat glass, it was obviously intended to be mounted close to the driver (on the door). When mounted out on the fender, the angle of view is too narrow to be very useful. I replaced the glass with a convex mirror from Sierra Madre and that works well. (The Sierra Madre glass mounts right onto the Chinese repop base that VS supplies, so you don't have to install anything new on the fender.)

On the passenger side, that same stock (flat glass) mirror is kind of a joke. The view angle is so narrow (when it's that far from the driver's eye) it's like looking through a telescope. I've tried mounting a wide angle convex lens to it that turned out to be too wide, so I may try replacing it with another Sierra Madre convex lens.

With the top down (99% of my driving), you don't really need a passenger side mirror. If I had to do it over, I think I'd mount both mirrors on the doors, and put up with a passenger side mirror that's a little awkward for the few times I need it.

Actually, I have had two IM's and the door mounted works for me. I find the adjustment of the mirrors has to be done with both door mirrors merging into the one with the center mirror and as such the blind spots are eliminated.  Just saying.

Thanks to all , I'm going to tape them in a few locations and see what's best . didn't like the Aero mirrors on the fenders "Useless" and looked like a add on even though they are the norm, I believe that more than likely the Bullets will end up on the doors as far forward as possible. Once again Thanks

I have double fender-mounted convex mirrors and think they work well.  You DO have to be conscious of the "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear" situation, particularly with the driver's mirror.

I requested Vintage to mount both mirrors on the doors and I like that location.

I did replace the passenger mirror-head with the Sierra Madre convex and use it for backing-up and parking (don't want to scrape up those rare Empi hubcaps).

Yes, convex glass for the passenger side mirror is a plus.  This provides a much wider field of vision, especially when driving with the top up, when visibility is poor, to say the  least.

I was just wondering the other day about this car...Glad to see it again!