Alex,
Those look like stock mirrors for the Japanese home market car. They may
have been retrofitted by a PO. Also, the aerial is on the wrong side. I
also see that you have front marker lights, but no rear lights - that tells
me that the car may have been a home market car as well. But the LHD makes
that unlikely. Hmmmm. I wonder where it originated. Did you buy it from a
Soldier?
Either way, the car looks great! By the way, where do you live in VA?
Sid
>From: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
>Reply-To: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>
>To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Sideview mirrors, are they stock?
>Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:31:28 -0400
>
>We've been wondering ever since Dennis bought this '69 last year whether
>the sideview mirrors, mounted on the middle of the front fenders, are a
>stock Datsun product or if they were aftermarket mirrors or mirrors adapted
>from another car entirely.
>
>Does anyone have any clue? You can see the car and mirrors at the
>following web address or at Roman Rist's roadster registry site. (Note:
>the photo is a 1.2mb file, but I just hate grainy, fuzzy pics, so I loaded
>the big pic files)
>
>http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/alex280zguy?e&.intl=us&.flabel=fld2&.from=d&.pind
>ex=2&start=1&.src=ph&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/alex280zguy%3fd%26.f
>label=fld2%26.intl=us%26.src=ph
>
>Thanks for any clues as to the origins of these very cool looking side
>mirrors.
>
>Also, they need rechroming, but I'm concerned about how to get the mirror
>glass out and back in without damaging them. Any ideas? I was thinking
>that instead of worrying about keeping the original glass and having to
>bend the metal rim that holds the mirror glass in, I'd just break the glass
>to remove it so as not to damage the metal and then to have new mirror
>glass cut slightly smaller than the original opening so that the glass
>could be glued in with silicone without having to bend any metal. Sound
>good, or is there a better way.
>
>Alex Avery
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