Outside mirror
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slantsixdan
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The same manual sideview mirrors optional for the driver's side could just as easily be installed on the passenger side. The most common one was a 2-post item, part № 2299 574, that looks like this:
Less common was the larger police/taxi manual sideview mirror, part № 2292 194 (plain) or 2292 195 (tinted "nonglare"), also installable on either side, that looks like this:
If you're asking whether there was a passenger-side counterpart to the driver-side remote-control sideview mirror offered in '65, the answer is yes. It was a "reach out the window and move the glass" manual-adjust item with the same design as the driver-side "leave the window closed and move the knob on the door" remote unit. Part № 2525 938, superseded by not-quite-identical 2809 933 (which has the outboard housing extending rearward to provide more shading to the mirror):
Note the '65 driver-side remote mirror is not the same as the '64 or '66-'76 driver-side remote mirror. They'll all fit in place of one another, but the styling is different. '64 mirrors also listed in the '65 FPC have a ridge/lip around the circumference of the housing that's not present on later mirrors, '65 mirrors have outer housing sidewalls that reduce in diameter from front to rear, and '66-up mirrors have straight-back outer housing sidewalls, same diameter from front to back.
Less common was the larger police/taxi manual sideview mirror, part № 2292 194 (plain) or 2292 195 (tinted "nonglare"), also installable on either side, that looks like this:
If you're asking whether there was a passenger-side counterpart to the driver-side remote-control sideview mirror offered in '65, the answer is yes. It was a "reach out the window and move the glass" manual-adjust item with the same design as the driver-side "leave the window closed and move the knob on the door" remote unit. Part № 2525 938, superseded by not-quite-identical 2809 933 (which has the outboard housing extending rearward to provide more shading to the mirror):
Note the '65 driver-side remote mirror is not the same as the '64 or '66-'76 driver-side remote mirror. They'll all fit in place of one another, but the styling is different. '64 mirrors also listed in the '65 FPC have a ridge/lip around the circumference of the housing that's not present on later mirrors, '65 mirrors have outer housing sidewalls that reduce in diameter from front to rear, and '66-up mirrors have straight-back outer housing sidewalls, same diameter from front to back.
Alaskan_TA
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The page with the 1965 Barracuda mirror information can be read at http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/DealershipDataBook/1965/65_Barracuda0011.jpg
slantsixdan
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That link's list is much less complete than the list in the actual FPC.
slantsixdan
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None of the mirrors listed here will help you much. They all have flat glass, which gives an all-but-uselessly small field of view from your perch in the driving seat. You can put a peel-and-stick round convex mirror over the flat glass, but then you swing all the way over to the opposite problem: everything in the mirror is too small to see from the driver's side. There are mirror specialty places sprinkled around the world that could probably cut you a round piece of mirror glass that's convex, but just slightly convex (like current-day factory passenger side mirrors) not super-duper convex like the peel-and-stick ones.
It's a big damn shame this American invention from six years ago never got commercialized. A couple discs of that kind of mirror glass would go great in the mirrors on either/both side(s) of our cars.
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