External Mirror Removal (with tuft testing)

[redneck]

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“Tiny mirror” for the win...


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[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

back when I lived in California, the law actually stated that a vehicle must have a device that allows rear vision for 100 feet on the drivers side of the vehicle. An austin mini traveler wagon from britain, rhd, complied so there was no mirror on the passenger (left) side

Meanwhile in Brazil, AFAIK the rare RHD imports were mandated to have both exterior mirrors. There is at least one RHD VW Beetle which was imported by a diplomat from Mozambique in the '60s in São Paulo, and it had exterior mirrors on both sides. And even though most of the regular LHD Beetles that i still see on the wild feature both exterior mirrors, recently while walking the dog I saw a '95 Itamar with just a driver-side exterior mirror.

Back to the RHD issue: even though it could be legal to drive one without a left exterior mirror, I wouldn't be so willing to try.

[aerohead]

1) For $36 I added a passenger side mirror to my 1984 CRX.
2) At that time, it was quite common for automobiles to have only a single mirror.
3) My Rambler American had single mirror.
4) My Morris Minor 1000 had single mirror.
5) El Camino had single.
6) My Karmann-Ghias had single mirror.
7) VW Transporter had two.
8) Dodge D-100 had two aftermarket mirrors.
9) T-100 has two.
Some 'historian' may be able to peg a date when the DOT/ NHTSA began to 'mandate' the second mirror.

[freebeard]

3) My Rambler American had single mirror.

What year and model? I had a 1959 Rambler 2-door station wagon in college. IIRC the last year of the flathead six.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

What year and model? I had a 1959 Rambler 2-door station wagon in college. IIRC the last year of the flathead six.

It was a 1961, two-door sedan, with flathead-six, one-barrel, no oil filter, and three-on-the-tree. 25-mpg. $ 80.
I overhauled the engine in high school auto shop, and drove it until I got orders for overseas.

[freebeard]

Aluminum extrusion door window frames? Identical front and rear bumpers? Carb bolted to the head? Exhaust pipe clamped to the block?

I drove mine for 2 years, no maintenance except welding a broken clutch bellcrank.

An evolution of Nils Wahlberg's 1949 Nash Airflyte.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Aluminum extrusion door window frames? Identical front and rear bumpers? Carb bolted to the head? Exhaust pipe clamped to the block?

I drove mine for 2 years, no maintenance except welding a broken clutch bellcrank.

An evolution of Nils Wahlberg's 1949 Nash Airflyte.

'cause I was and remain 'stupid', I created 'headers', consisting of three exhaust pipes, down underneath, to three cherry-bomb glass-packs.
And a Stromberg, two-barrel, on top of a Pep-Boys siamise-ed aluminum adaptor.
On Wednesday night, on Van Nuys Boulevard, with the ignition retarded just a bit, no one knew what was under the hood, and no one was adventurous enough to 'experiment' with the unknown. Funny!

[freebeard]

Good times.

[Piotrsko]

Hmm odd fire loud as poop engine noise. Wouldn't mess with you either, like somebody who rolls up engine off.

Wednesday night, parked down by BOB's BIGBOY, before all the lightpost mods. I miss that along with CHP harassment on the 405 northbound of the 101.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by aerohead

1) For $36 I added a passenger side mirror to my 1984 CRX.
2) At that time, it was quite common for automobiles to have only a single mirror.

In Brazil it used to be still "acceptable" for the cheaper econoboxes to feature only one exterior mirror from the factory, yet some fleet-oriented versions of the VW Santana and Chevrolet Opala which were considered prestigious cars in Brazil could be specified with only a driver-side exterior mirror. Last time I saw a Santana from the '80s with a single exterior mirror was about 8 years ago. On a sidenote, a few days ago while walking the dog I spotted what may be the last '96-'97 Ford Fiesta with only the driver-side mirror in my hometown...

7) VW Transporter had two.
8) Dodge D-100 had two aftermarket mirrors.
9) T-100 has two.

Not sure when utility vehicles were mandated to come with exterior mirrors on both sides in Brazil, but most likely it was still in the '60s, yet the stock ones fitted to many medium-duty trucks until the '70s were so small that aftermarket ones which used to be of the same size more often found on modern medium-duty trucks were quite popular. Once in a while I even see some VW Transporter or Chevrolet C-10 fitted with such mirrors.