<VV> VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 120, Issue 27

Carl Kelsen Arlette Pat arlettecarl at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 14 16:46:12 EST 2015 

G'day and happy new year to everyone from Australia,
With all this talk of remote external mirrors I had to add my views. I have successfully installed factory correct original equipment remote control mirrors to the left and right hand sides of my 1965 Monza convertible.

I had absolutely no difficulty in assembling one of these remote control mirrors to suit the right hand side door. The internal controller installed without difficulty and the appearance looks as if Chevrolet offered a right hand side remote mirror. 

In my view the matched pair look a lot better than have different mirrors even if not absolutely correct. Mind you my '65 Monza is right hand drive and that's not factory so the addition of a right hand side remote mirror at least in my case seems right.

Regards from Australia where we are in the middle of our summer.
Carl Kelsen
1959 Imperial Crown Southampton
1962 RHD Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan
1965 RHD Chevrolet Corvair Monza convertible
1983 RHD Cadillac Eldorado Biraritz
2002 RHD Rover Connessiour 75 sedan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

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>    1. Re: Mirrors (J. R. Read)
>    2. Re: Mirrors ~ "Remote" means ... ? (J. R. Read)
>    3. Re: Mirrors (Rick Norris)
>    4. Re: Mirrors (Marc Marcoulides)
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:20:36 -0600
> From: "J. R. Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Jay Maechtlen" <jaysplace at laserpubs.com>,
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> Subject: Re: <VV> Mirrors
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> IF you had (speaking stock now) a remote controlled mirror (from the factory 
> or the dealer), it was only on the driver side.  If you had/have a right 
> side mirror (required at some point during Corvair production years) it 
> would not match (appearance) with the left side remote mirror.
> 
> It is not possible SFAIK to use a left side remote mirror on the right side. 
> I do not believe that there would be a way to mount it at the correct angle.
> 
> If you want to find a later style remote mirror (from a non-Corvair) where 
> you could get a pair of them (either manual remote or electronic remote), 
> that might possibly work.  Don't know, never tried.  If you have success at 
> that, please let the rest of us know about it.  Obviously you will also need 
> to deal with mounting and paint matching.
> 
> Later, JR
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> > So the pass side mirror didn't have cable running under the dash so the 
> > driver could reach it?
> >
> > I wonder if someone makes electric mirrors that look suitably (or at least 
> > reasonably) slim?
> > - I guess you could put the adjusting motors in the door with cables 
> > running up to the mirror?
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:48:18 -0600
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> To: "Charlie" <chaz at properproper.com>,	<corvairduval at cox.net>
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> Let's not forget that Corvair started life as an economy car.
> Later, JR
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> Right ~ in 1965, "remote" meant you didn't have to roll the window down, but
> you still had to be on that side of the car?
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:13:15 -0500
> From: "Rick Norris" <ricknorris at suddenlink.net>
> To: "'Gerald Fleming'" <jerryaor at yahoo.com>,	"Virtualvairs "
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> I guess since this thread is about Corvairs we could call it " Smoke &
> Mirrors"! GG!
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> Rick Norris
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> I only have one mirror and it is manual remote. When I painted the car, I
> got new one and body man changed the badly pitted original with the first
> new one. It would not hold position, so called Clark's and got the second
> one but it did same thing. When I called second time (after open heart
> surgery) they advised me that was all they could do.
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> The 1975 Pontiac sedan had an optional mirror for both sides painted body color with remote cables for dash mount. The passenger side has a long cable so it can be mounted close enough for the driver to operate. Curvature at the base is very close to curvature of late doors. I had a set and sold them this past summer at the Detroit homecoming. 
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> >Subject: Re: <VV> Mirrors
> >
> >So the pass side mirror didn't have cable running under the dash so the 
> >driver could reach it?
> >
> >I wonder if someone makes electric mirrors that look suitably (or at 
> >least reasonably) slim?
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