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Originally Posted by freebeard
The Vitalonis are the swap meet items? Do they normally mount with two screws in the sheet metal?
Gerrelt has a story on his website on grafting Vitalonis onto the stock VW mount. That's been on my to-do-someday list so I'd be interested in your impressions.
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Yep,swap meet specials.Couple bucks apiece.In mid-1980s ROAD & TRACK their asking $14.95 for the 'mini-Tonado's' like I found.
The ball-and-socket joint is at the mirror housing stalk interface,then they screw/bolt the stalk to the base,which screw-attaches to the car.
Looks like SCCA,LeMans,and F-1 racers used them (in photographs).
I removed the base and attached the stalks to steel angle brackets which in turn bolt to the top of the Toyota ball-socket steel pressing.Goofy-looking!
I think I like them but I'm extremely vigilant in traffic.
One of my neighbors was killed in a head-on two weeks ago.Some Texans seem to believe they live in Deadwood S. Dakota.Anything can happen around here.
I'll do a couple hundred-miler this weekend 'n see what they're like on the open road.
Tufting the door glass would be good to do,as well as holding my tuft wand out the open window for a look at the flow.Also some long tufts on the stalk and housing themselves.
Mirrors appear to be scaled as a function of design aesthetics rather than optics.A Tundra/T-100/Camry/and Echo will have similar mirrors of different size,even though the driver's eyes are the same distance from the reflective surface.
Some of the 2015s are paying attention to this,especially the supercars.