1929 Tudor Exterior Mirror - What are you using?

BRENT in 10-uh-C

BRENT in 10-uh-C

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I have a customer that is ready for picking up his newly restored '29 Tudor. On his check-out drive yesterday, he discussed the need for external mirrors on each side. This is not a request we generally get however for him to feel safe, I understand why he would like to have additional rear view mirrors. The issue I am having is we cannot find hinge-style Rear View Mirrors for the R/S of a 28/29 Closed car. Does anyone have any suggestions or a source for one??

TIA
 
I do have a question on these though......

Snyders appears to carry this same Mirror (A-17741-A) however their description states these are only usable for the Driver's side as there is not enough travel to be able to see out of them. If this is true, the R/S would only be for aesthetics ...which I doubt the Customer would accept that. Can anyone comment on that??
 
If they're the same as the mirrors I bought a few years ago for my '29 coupe, you can definitely use them on the passenger side. They're not big, so you kinda have to decide whether you'd rather look at the adjacent lane or at the side of the car without needing to reposition your head. I always opted for the side of the car because I tend to use them for parking.
 
I put a self-adhesive bubble mirror on the glass face of my right hand side mirror on both of my cars. The bubble distorts things a bit (objects are closer than they appear) but you can sure tell if there is a car over there before changing lanes.

I've gotten pretty good at reversing the car and using that mirror for that side. You just need to remember that it is distorted.

My bubble mirrors exactly match the diameter of the original flat mirror, but you could go a bit larger with the bubble and no one would notice.

My mirrors are attached to my wind wings, but I am sure the same idea would work on a hinge-mounted mirror.
 
Brent..
Steve told us they flip over for use on right.
What’s going with us is use on slant. Steve said only need to ream for larger hinge pins which we’ve not done yet. He’s had them used on Vic
 
A couple comments on side mirrors. If you aim the mirrors on both sides to the blind spots that will save you from having to turn your head to check for cars. You can see what is behind you with the inside mirror. Second, if you add a third mirror that is aimed to your rear wheel you can easily judge a parking space when backing into it.
 
L-31 Tudor I put the hinge mirrors on the top hinges, neither side adjust to see either side or fenders for me , I have an aftermarket seat slider that moves me back about 6 inches . Before I installed the mirrors I was using the stainless steel headlight buckets as rear side collision avoidance , they would give me a one second advance notice of passing vehicles or should say one second sooner heart attack LOL . When parking my A in tight quarters I look down at the driver’s side running board and fenders to judge distance and park close enough to the side exiting the passenger side, that way I have plenty of room on the passenger side and don’t have to worry about hitting anything over there !
 
Oldbluoval said:
Brent..
Steve told us they flip over for use on right.
What’s going with us is use on slant. Steve said only need to ream for larger hinge pins which we’ve not done yet. He’s had them used on Vic
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Oldbluoval - I modified one of these to fit the right side of my ‘31 slant by drilling the holes out. You need to be very careful as the metal gets really thin if you use the old holes to center on. To deal with that, I put the bracket in the vise on my vertical mill and cheated the center of the new hole towards the inside. The outside of the new hole was the outside of the old hole.

The new long pin I got from Snyders (A-46335–B, special for the slant windshields) had a knurled portion just under the head. I ended up drilling out both top and bottom to fit the pin diameter, then overdrilling just the top to account for the knurled portion. In the original steel hinges you are supposed to hammer that knurling into the steel to hold it in place, but I did not want to do that to the pot metal hinge. I put a spot of loctite under the head. The hinge pins are long so you could thread the lower end and put a nut on.

BTW - Snyder’s sells a hinge mirror A-17741-B* for the 30/31s. This does NOT fit the slants (initial expensive mistake) and cannot, as near as I can see, be modified to do so. Instead I used the A-17741-A (Note: when I did this a couple of years ago they designated this mirror for 28-29 only, I see now that this is designated for 28-31 but not Slants).

But wait - there's more! When I went to remove the old hinge pin using the handy-dandy Snyders hinge pin removal tool A-46335-T that I borrowed, I ran into an issue. The hole in the top bar of the tool, into which the head of the hinge pin moves when pressing it out, was too small. Rather than to drill out the top bar in a borrowed tool, I made a couple of new bars from 1"x1" square stock I had. Also, the hinge pins in the "normal" cars uses a 7/32" dowel in the lower portion of the tool to press out the pin. I made my special Slant Windshield tool to use a slightly larger 1/4" dowel.

So now I'm set! But no more Slants to do this on...
 

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