Some might find it interesting to note that the BJ8's
corporate successor, the MGC, had a door mounted XKE
style mirror on drivers side and a totally different
style mirror mounted forward on passenger front wing
on US spec cars.
JK
--- sbyers <sbyers@ec.rr.com> wrote:
> >From the BJ8 Registry, here is a survey of the
> locations for the external
> mirrors where that information is recorded. The
> numbers are the number of
> cars recorded with the mirror placed as described.
> None of these are the
> factory installations (wedge-shaped mirrors):
>
> 1 over front edge of wheelwell
> 74 over center of wheelwells
> 27 over rear of wheelwells
> 4 over front of spears
> 18 over center of spears
> 55 over rear of spears
> 12 between rear of spear and edge of fender
> 1 at rear edge of fender
> 87 on doors
> One car has both wing mirrors over the wheelwells
> and door mirrors also.
>
> Wing mirrors were not installed at the factory as
> standard items. Evidence
> gathered from BMIHT information for BJ8s indicates
> that if a car got
> external mirrors as factory equipment, it was almost
> always in conjunction
> with a luggage rack. BMIHT data on over a thousand
> cars indicates that cars
> with external mirrors were also either Personal
> Export Delivery or went to a
> country other than the USA.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC USA
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