drove 100 miles on Saturday with trap mirrors.
Worse than worthless on a USA car.
Worse than worthless on a USA car.
Flag vs. trapezoid mirror ?
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I’m going with traps, euro placement. I’m not sure if I will do a passenger side one. I don’t have one now.
I prefer the flag mirror as well. It seems more modern and in keeping with the coupe, while the trap looks like it belongs on an older car. I think I will put a Vitaloni Sebring mirror on my coupe like the ones seen on some of the racing CSLs. It is small, fits tight to the body, and I think if I painted the body of it the same color as the car it will mask it even further; mirrors really take away from the body lines of a car in my opinion.
That's it! Looks good.
Definitely prefer the mirrors on the Stella CSL as they are closer to the body.
But they require you to look down further. This is probably no big deal on the right, but looking so far down on the left is one of the things I really dislike about the US location for the trapezoid mirror on my car.
I have a driver's side flag mirror in driver quality condition with plastic gasket for $60 plus shipping.
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Henny
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I agree. I've been searching for a swan mirror for my '68 1600 unsuccessfully for a while. It is what it came with originally, but was swapped out for a trap mirror 2 owners ago.
Only very early euro coupes came with these and of course 1600/2002.
My 1972 car has a "Flag" mirror. Wonder if that the Trapezoid was replaced at some point. Seems like a lot of cars earlier than 1976 have these
Most likely replaced at some point, as were mine. I went back to traps.
Coupes never came with a flag mirror and it isn’t in the orange parts book
if you have a very original car, it should have traps - period.
my car has flags, but as i have said, there is very little original on my coupe ... i can see better out of the flag. i use them only out of preference. its like a 5 speed, scheel sport seats or a petri steering wheel ... the car didn't come with it, but its better (for me) with it.
my car has flags, but as i have said, there is very little original on my coupe ... i can see better out of the flag. i use them only out of preference. its like a 5 speed, scheel sport seats or a petri steering wheel ... the car didn't come with it, but its better (for me) with it.
My 74 still has it’s original trapezoid mirror. A few years ago I bought a matching trap mirror for the right side but I can’t bring myself to drill the holes required to install it.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that flag mirrors debuted in 1975 on the new e21 3 series.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that flag mirrors debuted in 1975 on the new e21 3 series.