Omni/colt Mirrors for sale

I'll take them Will
Just in case one of mine breaks

PM on the way

Doug M

Sold!

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manual set of Omni/Colt mirrors?

FYI...

I am not aware of a manual right side colt mirror. At least not the style as shown in this photo.

The only right side I have seen is in fact electric. But many owners never hooked them up. If the mirror glass clicks when it is moved, it is electric. If it just moves, it is manual.

Larry

See, you can learn something new every day.
My right side mirror does indeed click when I move the glass. I just thought that was the way they were.
Doug M

These are my favorite aftermarket mirror. They look perfect on a Pantera, especially with an L model bumper.....

How do you mount them? I had my passenger mirror dissppear one night driving to fast in the mountains of Colorado. The drivers side has a metal edge piece that slips into the opening and is glued to the glass.

Hi;
Any idea what year and body style these mirrors are from.
Thanks

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Any idea what year and body style these mirrors are from.

Yup.

'79 - '83 Dodge Colt.

Standard manual left side.

Optional electric left and right side.

Scarce as hen's teeth in wrecking yards.

I do have some left side manuals I would part with.

Larry

Ok - I'll bite. Does anyone have a semi close-up photo of an installed set for reference and perspective?

Dodge Colt mirror on Pantera. Probably a little closer than you wanted, but the only one I had handy.

I'm replacing my mirrors also and these mirrors really fit the character of the car. Do you have a problem seeing on the driver side with the window slide channel right in front of the mirror? I assume you have to move your head around to see around the channel? I have always thought the best vision position would be to have the mirror pushed all the way back against the guide(6 inches back) but that would look funky.

Tom,
I had a set on my car. The look was right for the car (my opinion) but the rear visibility was poor on the drivers side and non-existant on the passenger side. So I took them off and sold them. Someone makes a 1 or 2" extension that makes the visiblility much better. I think it's Kirk Evans. One of the local cars is an Amerisport GT5S and it has the extensions. Here's a picture of it.

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Someone makes a 1 or 2" extension that makes the visiblility much better. I think it's Kirk Evans.

Yes, those are his.

Larry

Interesting spacer. HMMMM When I look at the mirrors on Gravino's car I wonder if a triangle spacer that kicks the mirror out at the rear next to the glass would give better side visability. Frankly all I want to see is on the side and slightly to the rear so when I change lanes I'm not bumping someone in the blind spot. As far as directly behind me, the inside rear view mirror is used for that. You could add the spacer and then fiberglass the spacer and the mirror so you has one smooth unit. That spacer just looks odd to me. But then maybe the issue is you have to kick it far out so you can see around the back wheel arches...especially on the wide body cars.

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the issue is you have to kick it far out so you can see around the back wheel arches

Exactly.

I have the Colts and have been giving the spacers some thought for years now.

Maybe one day.....

Larry

I think the Colt mirrors look great on a narrow body Pantera because they match the angular shape and creases, but I don't think they look right on a 5-S with it's rounded flares. It looks like a mismatch to me. The stock 5-S mirrors look much better on it.

Michael

More info: some Dodge Omni mirrors are cable operated so while they are 'manual' you can adjust them without opening the windows. The cables are only about 8" long so they mount very close to the windows. Originally on the Dodges, the mirrors mounted on a steel plate mounted to the doors; when I mounted ours in the '80s, I used wedge-shaped adapters that are radically different left and right. The wedge-adapters are made of pine and BOLT directly to my Lexan front quarter windows. That way I know I'm not depending on magic goo to hold the mirrors to a piece of glass. The adjusting cables also come through the plastic windows into stock triangular mount castings. Because I'm a little lazy, I roughed out the wood adapters, then spread a thck layer of Bondo on the surfaces that meet the window, added a layer of plastic film and bolted them down. Once it set up, that gave me the exact contour without hours of tedious sanding and refitting. They work well on our narrow body '72 with thinner adapters than are shown in Larry's photos. On "lumpier" GT4,-5 and -5 S cars, the adapters will need to be quite a bit thicker to get a visual shot past the fenders. Solved a problem we had with two drivers a foot apart in height....

Dear Mr. Bosswrench...please post a picture of the mirrors so we can see your handy work both from the inside and outside of the beast.

Does anyone have a clue where to get a set of these mirrors?