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September 19, 2003
Hi, Tim....
I was in the same predicament when I
picked up my BE. Like you, I hate drilling
through the car's panels and creating holes where there were none.
On my PO'd '74 Spridget the holes were
already there and a blacked out Baby Turbo went beautifully with my
two-tone
semi-gloss black and metallic medium
blue Maaco paint scheme!
But like your car, the BE had no side mirror to begin with.
So what I did was have fabricated a mounting plate for a spun aluminum
Raydot, encompassing two holes drilled
in the plate which utilized the already present windshield post to body
holes,
got one longer SS bolt and fastened all
down.
My mechanic was kind enough to fabricate a fitting for the Raydot
fastening
to it's new mounting plate, which would
would make the Raydot driver semi-
adjustable (up and down)...we had to work a bit to get the lateral angle
correct
in mounting, as the Raydot didn't come with driver-adjustable mounting.
Now this is NOT the least expensive way
of going about it, but amortizing the cost of this very tidy, neat
installation over the life-time of the car.......?? Not bad! :)
If your equipped to do your own work
(I used to be, but no more!), much less
inexpensive. The mirror cost $50, fabricating the mounting plate cost
$50,
fabricating a driver-adjustable mirror
mount cost $50. I needed one longer bolt
(in place of the normal short one) which
I got for free (free is good) and I did the
installation (yhaaaay Cap'n Bob, way to
go!:).
Cap'n. Bob
'60 :{)
PilotRob@... 25371
Posted on September 19, 2003 09:49 AM
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