FINALLY FINISHED THIS PROJECT

Uh Larry, I wanted to compliment your mirrors, but, but, but ... now what do I say?

OK, I have an idea:

Great job Larry.

your friend on the DTBB

Hopefully Murth will eventually offer more replacement glass sizes.
I'd like to put them in my Powered Vitaloni Baby Turbos' but this isn't NASA here.
Your's look great.
I thought that maybe a pistol grip 20 gauge pump sticking through the window would clear people out of the way when I need to change lanes but your idea is better.

Well done! I like it.

Larry, I have these on my truck and like them a lot. The bikers like them on my truck also!

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Hopefully Muth will eventually offer more replacement glass sizes.

Oh, I wouldn't bet on it. I spoke with them, directly into the R&D department, several times. They used to do custom orders, but not any more. I specifically talked about all the Colt mirrors out there on high dollar Panteras, that there likely is a market. Not interested. And they absolutely, positively REFUSED to sell just a mirror/LED unit by itself. They won't even sell you a mirror/LED unit if you break one. You must buy the entire L/R kit. I think the OEM guys will sell you a single replacement for their cars/trucks that use the Muth mirrors, but big $$.

Plus, the kits come with one flat and one convex mirror. The convex ones have that "objects appear smaller...." text and some of it would have remained in the cut-down piece needed for my mirrors. I used two kits to get two flat mirrors, and had to make sure even then to get mirrors large enough to accomodate my Colt sizes without having some of the "Muth Signal MIrror" text remain on the cut-down pieces.

If you want to duplicate this, Muth will be of no help at all.

Larry,
How did you attach the mirror to your car? If you have already covered this please direct me to the link. Is the wiring run through the glass? I would like to know about the attaching and wiring.
They look awesome.

Nice job, the turn indicators should be a great help to the vision impaired drivers on the road who like to run into our low cars!

They can see it now.Larry also has the LED high mount brake light. Nice stuff. Safe and looks moderen. I bought a third brake light from a GM at the junk yard, but it was just too big and clunky....

Nice job Larry!

Johnny

Hi Brooke,

The mirror housings are the ‘79 - ‘83 Dodge Colt units that the vendors sold back-in-the-day. They were on 2511 at time of purchase, some sort of epoxy used to attach to the glass. Then a thin piece of painted metal is attached inside to cover the epoxy from view. Some similar epoxy mountings on other Panteras have found etched/scratched glass underneath (to improve adhesion) when removed, others seem to have worked fine on good, well cleaned glass.

Wiring is a small diameter cable (the LED’s draw no currrent) that exit the mirror housing bottom right next to the rubber window gasket, tuck in the gasket and into the door interior, then travel with the other wiring to the connection point under the dash at the emergency blinker switch. About an inch of cable shows, but it is black like everything else, on the bottom, and only seen if you get down and look for it.

And by the way, have you installed the GT5 lights you bought from me a while back? How’d it go?

Larry

Larry,
Not yet on the lights, other projects/work getting in the way. Hope to get to it this summer.