trying to find a nice set of door mirrors for my baja project - anyone have any ideas?? - pics would be good...I'm finding it hard to get the right shape/size etc etc...
oh, they are not the hinge pin type - so will need to bolt on to the door and the quarter vent will still need to open!
I,m keeping an eye on this thread 'cos my son can't make his mind up at the moment. Round mirrors certainly suit the beetle shape but getting the right sort that fit is another thing. We've now got a nice little collection going at our house but I'm tending towards hotrod style mirrors that fit to the top of the door and hang down if you know what I mean, but my son is not so sure of them and it is his car.
im also interested
just be aware with some like those round hotrod ones if theres to close to the car theyre pretty useless
i changed my original chrome ones for those black plastic brazillian ones
they suck cos they suffer from this problem
left one is usless unless u wanna makesure ur chrome strips havent fallen off
i put colour coded baby turbos on the black bug but there a somewhat dated mirror, very 80s flavour
im looking round at various bike mirrors at the moment
some look like they could be adapted well
BILLET
dont need mirrors on a baja just floor it
show us your gates
If those billet items had built in indicators i would be all over those. They look so😎
I use a CBR600 motorcycle mirror. It has a bolt front and back which is hidden under the rubber boot once installed.
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
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www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
Hey I love the billet mirror, where can I get a set of them from???
funny Wes, i was actually looking at those exact mirrors in carbon fibre on ebay
i was worried that the stems were to long tho
but they look the goods on ur bug
but i also found these which im really liking
Wes, Joel - great idea and exactly the sort of look I'm after (I was originally thinking baby turbos..).
Joel - have you got any details for those?
cheers
Joel, I had those type on my beetle in about '77 back in England. I've never even seen them in Oz plus I'd have thought you lot would have laughed at me for being too old school🙁
BTW where do they sell them😊
there seems to be a few variations of baby turbos out there
i had the old 80s style ones on my black bug
they were abit weathered and ratty so i colour coded them when i resprayed it and they came up ok
prick of a job tho
but i have no idea if u can even still get them
the ones on this GL have baby turbo bases tho so are probably the current style but ive never seen them advertised anywhere
Marc and Barry, i came across those on ebay but they havent been relisted yet so if another set comes up ill let u know
well fk me. that gl is shit hot.
nick
😂 I said the same thing
Simon
yup DUB74L hopes to be like that one day with a fullhouse type4 up the arse
Hi
I don't like drilling extra holes in my car so I used XA Falcon mirrors modified to fit the stock mirror hole, these were on my old 1302.
I will be doing something similar on my new 1303 but using XR Falcon mirrors instead.
Steve
My car had baby turbo mirrors when I got it, and they sucked. Well I thought so anyway. Whoever put them on filled the original mirror holes, and when I had it repainted I filled the baby turbo mirror holes. So I was starting with a clean slate.
The bike mirrors come in different lengths. Some are long and would look weird, but the ones I got were shorter. I just went to a bike wrecker and dug around in their mirror bin.
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
🙂
www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
well i ended up getting a set of those california smoothies
cept i didnt realise how many germanlook guys use them
might have to find something else now cos looking thro the GL gallery on samba nearly all of them use this style 😠
they look alright colour coded
Here you should be able to see them on my beetle in about 1980.
In the meantime I bought a pair of those baby turbos and fitted them but they look crap so I'm still looking but I've got to say I certainly like Wes's idea and have been looking at quite a few bikes recently.
i was looking for a reasonable style for my buggy, just by chance I found some on ebay that looked like what I was after, won at a bargain price, they were off some sort of m/bike and were from The Big Apple, I reckon they look great but I think I'm the only one who thinks so.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
I bought bullet style side mirrors looked great but when you looked in them you just saw yourself looking back, and they were not adjustable.
