<VV> Mirrors, was 60 tag escutcheon

[Mike Ioanes]

> The red '60 Monza among the fleet (Ed knows the car) had a pair of dealer
> installed mirrors mounted on the front fenders just ahead of the
> windshield.  He sent me a photo of the car as it was delivered, with the
> mirrors etc and the owner w/crewcut hair standing beside it.   When I
> painted the car (still had its original albeit somewhat sunburned Roman
Red
> lacquer on it) I noted the holes in the top of the front fenders with an
> "impression" of a mirror gasket.   No rear view mirror on either door...
>
> There's still no mirror on the outside of the car now and I did fill the
> holes on the fenders.   However, now I'm wondering about opening them back
> up and securing two mirrors back on the fenders just the way the car was
> delivered from the dealer even if they *were* put in the wrong place.
> The mirrors were already gone when the car came here to live (this is the
> red '60 Monza we got from Curt Jones when he was thinning his fleet a few
> years back) so I didn't know what had been there until Ed sent me the
photo
> of the car he'd managed to turn up from the previous owner when it was
> still new, time capsule image if there ever was one.
>
> How many people have a '60 Corvair Monza and also have a photo of the same
> car when it was new?
>
> It was the photo that showed that the mirrors on the fenders were standard
> appearing 1960 Vair mirrors, only there were two of them in this instance
> and in the wrong places.
>
>
> Anybody else ever see an early Vair with dealer mounted mirrors on the
tops
> of the front fenders, just ahead of the windshield bow?    I have to
admit,
> they kinda grow on you after you think about it a while, kinda makes me
> think of the mirrors on 1960 Oldsmobiles...  and the holes are still
there,
> wouldn't be hard to "unfill" them and mount two '60 mirrors back on the
> fenders again, and I haven't yet drilled any holes in the door to mount a
> mirror there.
>
> Now I'm wondering how much a pair of nice '60 mirrors would cost...
>
>
> tony..
The location makes sense to me.  Where the (driver's side only) mirror is on
my 64 Monza seems too far back to do much good for me.  It's about even with
the back of the vent window.
Mike Ioanes