[T3] Passenger Side Rear View Mirror

[Mike Fisher]

The long arm is a separate piece from the passenger mirror on my '69.


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Gary Forsmo <gbforsmo at gmail.com> wrote:

> >Dave Hall wrote:
> >I think VW supplied all their Squarebacks with two mirrors for just that
> >reason.
>
> I can attest that my one-owner, original 1969 Square came with both a LHS &
> RHS Door Mirror.
>
> Because I wasn't a "appreciator" (is that a word?) of all things Type 3,
> until I met Jim Adney, by phone, in June of 2010, my car had been in dry
> storage, up on jack stands, Stabil in the fuel tank for 10+ years.
>
> The barn-owner where the Square was stored, with my 1930 Model "A", Ford,
> 45-B, Coupe with Rumble Seat, had to have some barn foundation work done,
> the cars needed to be sold and/or moved.
> Much as I wanted to keep the Model "A", (it was almost completely in pieces
> and I was not able to "wrench it back together") ... it sold quickly.
>
> The Square was another story.  Because it was my first new car, I was
> emotionally attached to it.
>
> With Jim's (telephone) advice, we got it "fired up", drove it 65 miles to
> Madison with almost no brakes and got it nearer to Jim's house, for
> additional repairs.  Since Jim has helped repair many of the "systems", and
> underscored the importance of the value
> (not $$$ value) of  the '69 Square, with FI & MT, in the Type 3 arena of
> "friends".
> I owe a debt of gratitude to Bob Heydt, too.
>
> But back to the mirrors.
> Sometime in the '70's, the silvering on my original mirror glass,
> de-laminated.
> As a Christmas gift, our children bought two replacements.  They were not
> VW parts.  But they worked.
> Dummy me .... I disposed of the originals.  That was BVWA (before
> Volkswagen appreciation).
>
> I have managed to buy a correct, (mostly good chrome, s.s., mounting nut,
> etc.) LHS, short-arm door mirror.
> But in 3+ years, I have not found a suitable and correct,
> good-to-excellent, RHS, long-arm mirror.  Still huntin'.
>
>
> Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT
> Rockport, TX (winter)
> Lake Geneva, WI (summer)
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