CMP mirrors on european trucks ?

[Lynn Eades]

Show us the back please. that one looks like a flat mirror.
The ones I'm showing,are from Argentina, and are CMP mirrors wih the the curved glass.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Show us the back please. that one looks like a flat mirror.
The ones I'm showing,are from Argentina, and are CMP mirrors wih the the curved glass.

That's interesting because CMP mirrors, although they have convex glass are flat in profile. The Argentinian mirrors look to be flat too.

If you check the parts book you will see 17702 is the correct part number.

[Keith Webb]

Here's the back view:



And profile:





So you can see the front is slightly curved. The ones with the fully curved body are for other vehicles.

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Think you will find that the curved back version was used on the range of British post WWII FV vehicles, the Austin Champ and the Ferret etc. I never picked up the difference until now.
Rich

[Dusonn]

I may have found a cheaper replica, but the photo is tiny http://www.holden.co.uk/displayprodu...&pCode=094.132

[Phil Waterman]

Now we know that CMPs started out with cheap, and readily available mirrors when they were built so some where along the way things have been turned up side down.

The latest visual match found by Dusan look very much like the original mirrors but at the cost listed work out to cost something like $650US plus VAT, shipping and import duties for the six I would need for my 3 trucks is a little rich for my blood particularly as I seem to loose one to breakage each year. Drive these trucks in the woods the mirrors tend to be like whiskers on a cat they are the first thing to touch.

But we can all live in hope of find the mother load of a couple of crates full of unpainted versions. But if people keep looking maybe we can create a false market and some body will jump on the bandwagon and start making them.

Thanks for posting the information, always fun to read.

Cheers Phil

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

But we can all live in hope of find the mother load of a couple of crates full of unpainted versions. But if people keep looking maybe we can create a false market and some body will jump on the bandwagon and start making them.

Phil,

I would not keep up my hopes. Two motherlodes of CMP mirrors turned up (that I know of) one in Italy, the other in Argentina. The former we never heard about again, the latter cache was sold on ebay for good money.

As for "somebody making them", as you can see by all the links to webshops "they" already do? You could try asking those suppliers if they could provide unchromed ones, which would lower the cost.

Hanno