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Spelunker Member Since: 02 May 2016 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 248 |
How many others can remember (like me) when wing mirrors were actually fitted to the WINGS - all you young uns should watch old sweeny or the professionals episodes where they are driving jags, cortina's capri's even transits with wing mirrors in their correct place - on the wing! I cant understand why DOOR mirrors fitted to the DOORS are now generally referred to as wing mirrors..... QUID FACIUM TIBI
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29th Dec 2016 6:35pm |
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p38arover Member Since: 16 Dec 2015 Location: Western Sydney Posts: 1528 |
They are starting to be called that here even though early cars didn't have them on the "wings" - a term not used here. They were on the front mudguards (our term for wings). Generally, though, we say door mirrors.
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29th Dec 2016 10:17pm |
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Spelunker Member Since: 02 May 2016 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 248 |
Older cars did used to have door mirrors - a lot of the time small aftermarket ones that fitted onto the front quarterlight (remember those as well) pillar and sometimes wing mirrors as well. But to reiterate, wing mirrors go on wings (or mudguards, or fenders) and the mirrors fitted to doors are DOOR MIRRORS! Unless you have a Delorian or something else fitted with gull-wing doors, then it gets confusing.
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29th Dec 2016 11:01pm |
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IanV8 Member Since: 14 Jan 2010 Location: Dunfermline Posts: 502 |
My early classics had them on the bonnet so they should have been called bonnet mirrors.
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30th Dec 2016 9:31am |
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Andy S Member Since: 16 Jun 2013 Location: Sevenoaks Posts: 1021 |
Just to continue on this theme, I recall Government pool cars (used to cart Govt Ministers from place to place) always had after market chrome wing mirrors fitted, even when the car itself came with door mirrors. It was especially noticeable on Rover SD1s in the early 1980s.
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30th Dec 2016 1:08pm |
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