One side mirror or two?
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Warren
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It is really hard and expensive to find one with nice chrome that will last. Not sure on S.S. ones but I'd bet they are flash chromed and won't last.
The sheet metal screwed on ones jiggle loose and I measure twice think 3 times before I drill a hole in nice paint. If you drive with top down have a good rear view mirror I'd say 100% no don't add it.
It is really hard and expensive to find one with nice chrome that will last. Not sure on S.S. ones but I'd bet they are flash chromed and won't last.
The sheet metal screwed on ones jiggle loose and I measure twice think 3 times before I drill a hole in nice paint. If you drive with top down have a good rear view mirror I'd say 100% no don't add it.
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Thanks for your input, guys. I've run a single mirror for over 20 years with no issues and with the soft top down 99% of the time. The reason I started thinking about a second mirror is I just (finally) scored the hard top of my dreams and love the way the Tiger looks and feels with the HT, so I'm thinking I'm going to keep it mostly on the car.
Ahh, I'm probably just fine with one side mirror.
Ahh, I'm probably just fine with one side mirror.
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Mirror, Mirror on the windshield...?
When I read the title, I thought that this would be a thread about style & appearance. You know, what looks correct to you & which style mirror do you like or think is most correct in period. Apparently not.
At one time, “Wink” [brand] mirrors were new and becoming popular, at least with me. I put a Wink in everything I could. I even put one in a company car after making some Goldberg inspired bracketry so that no new holes needed to be drilled in a car that did not belong to me. The field of vision provided by a well positioned Wink is amazing to me, and is still better than provided by the new cameras. You know what you are looking at, what you can see & what you cannot.
With a Wink, there is not really any need for an outside mirror, except maybe for towing something tall, which we should not be doing with a Tiger. So I removed the outside mirrors from my car. It is a cleaner look for the car, and I do not have to decide what style mirror to use.
I was also surprised to find that I could put one in a Pantera, and it was not in the way, and it greatly improved the view to the rear. Prior to that the safest way to change lanes was shortly after a quick stab on the throttle. I have found that some passengers do not appreciate having the mirror in front of them. I tell them to sit lower.
This is probably yet another one of the many advantages of being [relatively] short[ish]. You freakishly taller guys would be staring at an angled view of yourself in a Tiger, I suspect.
For appearance, I am partial to the Bullet style mirror as used on early GT-350s. With these, the mirror section is about the same diameter as the cone shaped body, rather than flaring out to a larger dimension, as most of the ones I see now. While they look great, the mirror area is unusually small and would tend to be most effective when used with the throttle-first lane change technique.
When I read the title, I thought that this would be a thread about style & appearance. You know, what looks correct to you & which style mirror do you like or think is most correct in period. Apparently not.
At one time, “Wink” [brand] mirrors were new and becoming popular, at least with me. I put a Wink in everything I could. I even put one in a company car after making some Goldberg inspired bracketry so that no new holes needed to be drilled in a car that did not belong to me. The field of vision provided by a well positioned Wink is amazing to me, and is still better than provided by the new cameras. You know what you are looking at, what you can see & what you cannot.
With a Wink, there is not really any need for an outside mirror, except maybe for towing something tall, which we should not be doing with a Tiger. So I removed the outside mirrors from my car. It is a cleaner look for the car, and I do not have to decide what style mirror to use.
I was also surprised to find that I could put one in a Pantera, and it was not in the way, and it greatly improved the view to the rear. Prior to that the safest way to change lanes was shortly after a quick stab on the throttle. I have found that some passengers do not appreciate having the mirror in front of them. I tell them to sit lower.
This is probably yet another one of the many advantages of being [relatively] short[ish]. You freakishly taller guys would be staring at an angled view of yourself in a Tiger, I suspect.
For appearance, I am partial to the Bullet style mirror as used on early GT-350s. With these, the mirror section is about the same diameter as the cone shaped body, rather than flaring out to a larger dimension, as most of the ones I see now. While they look great, the mirror area is unusually small and would tend to be most effective when used with the throttle-first lane change technique.
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OK; for research sake I went out to the barn and sat in the car. Tried turning head to the right instead of using wing mirror. Arthritis won!
OK; for research sake I went out to the barn and sat in the car. Tried turning head to the right instead of using wing mirror. Arthritis won!
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The 60's bullet style mirrors look great but when mounted on the door are not that easy to view back from unless you are sitting low or stoop down. If you have them on the passenger side same issue if on the doors.. The stems on them home the mirror so close to the body the field of view is limited. If you put them down the front guards they work better but don't look good imho.
Id say leave it with 1 and do a head check always
Id say leave it with 1 and do a head check always
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Agreed! The more I thought about it, after the helpful input from other Tiger brothers, I realized that a second mirror would be essentially pointless. And the thought of drilling holes in the door was, became at best, unappealing.
Fortunately, my neck functions fine although I can't say that about some of my other parts.
Thanks for your input, Michael.