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Out with antenna, in with mirror

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drooartz

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Got a small amount of motivation tonight and pulled the panel behind the RH front wing so I could remove the old radio antenna and install a mirror. Due to the cracks in the doors the door mounted mirrors no longer function -- and I removed the radio so the antenna was now superfluous. A quick Moss order and a new Lucas mirror arrived. Works reasonably well, and nicely plugs the old radio antenna hole.
 

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That's an interesting idea. I have a plastic plug in my antennae hole (and no mirror on that side at all). I may consider doing that.
My car still has the stock, AM-only radio. I've been thinking of replacing with a little storage cubby of some sort.
 
I like the MG radio blanking plate (especially on the steel dash cars) so just went with that -- though a nice little cubby would work well to fill the console slot on your car.

Once nice side effect of this little project is that I got behind that splash panel and got a good look at that inner structure. It's in perfect shape -- this car was definitely restored at some point in its past. Still need to pull the other side and clean it out as well. I am pleased that the deeper I go into this car, the better it looks I really did luck out when I found this one.

Oh and that mirror -- it works, but can't say it's all that useful. At least it fills the hole and makes me a bit more legal on the road.
 
Yeah, I like those little mirrors. I bought a pair for the Austin, but since it's still in progress, I put one on the Red Rat.

As you say, I don't know how well it works, but it keeps things legal and is better than nothing.
And I do like the way they look.

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I like that your car has its steering british style...cool!
 
Blackjokr said:
I like that your car has its steering british style...cool!
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It's a bit quirky, but a bunch of fun. I specifically wanted a RHD car when I went looking for this one -- always had a fascination, so it was time to try it out.
 
Next project gonna be that "crack of doom", then? :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
Next project gonna be that "crack of doom", then? :devilgrin:
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I'm having the roadster resprayed, and while it's there it's having both sides reinforced.
 
DrEntropy said:
Next project gonna be that "crack of doom", then? :devilgrin:
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It's on the list... driver's side is worse than the passenger side but it's there on both sides. I'll admit that sorting out a side mirror was step one in this process.

Some rust on the bottom of both doors as well, so it'll be strip-fix-repaint on both. Some day...
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