55 mirrors are door mounted and 56 are front fender mounted. Both mirrors
are the same for each side and the backward sloping ones on the 55s are
useless on the passenger door. Forward sloping ones from 56 work nicely on
the fender though. Have a pair of them on our 55 300 which came with them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Farrar" <tenpalms@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:35 PM
Subject: IML: Need help on 56 mirror mounting
> Could use some advice on mounting a right-side outside mirror on our 56
> sedan. The car didn't come with one but I picked up a nice correct stock
> one on ebay.
> I had intended to drill the holes in the door to exactly match the driver
> door
> mounting, but that would leave the mirror useless; even if adjusted all
the
> way inboard, you would see about
> 3 lanes over to the right. Trouble is,
> there doesn't seem to be any feasible
> mounting postion which gives the correct field of vision in the mirror.
> Now I'm wondering if the right hand mirror is different; maybe I have
> two lefts?? So, any 55-56 experts
> out there - where should the holes
> be drilled for the RH mirror, and are the mirrors the same left and right?
> Thanks for any help.
> Cheers
> Michael
>
> Roger and Michael in San Diego
> 67 Crown Convertible "Moby"
> 73 LeBaron Coupe "La Bomba"
> 56 Sedan
>
>
>
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