I'm adding right outside mirrors to my fleet, matching their placement on the left side. A rhetorical question I suspect, but anything else to know before I drill?

 

Two things come to mind, the best location for sight line on the right side door may not exactly match that of the left side door and if the mirror has flat glass you would want to change the glass to convex. Both items have been addressed in this previous thread: https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...m_content=post. Hope this helps.

 

I would tape the mirror to the door and drive at low speed. It is amazing what you can't see out of a non-wide angle lens. You may find you don't want it. I find a right hand mirror to be useful in backing into a garage, and parallel parking. That's it for those old ones.

 

Good inputs, thanks. I was doing this for function, not aesthetics, as I prefer the one-mirror look. I think I'll leave 'em as-is.

 

Thus the reason for changing the glass to wide angle convex. Available at auto-glass.com and possibly other suppliers.

 

I'd have to have two mirrors if nothing more than keeping the look of the car symmetrical. One mirror reminds me of this monstrosity. This hurts my OCD.

 

I have mirrors on both sides of my 64 F85. The right side is pretty useless, but it does help the overall look of the car.

 

My 69 came with the passenger mirror 1" +- further back than the drivers side - makes it so the A Pillar post is not in the way of the view. The difference is not noticeable at all. It's most useful when backing into the garage so you know your not side swiping the car +-
Drivers mirror BASE is 8 from the Door Gap, the Passengers is 9" from the Door Gap

BTW my passenger side mirror is the same one as the drivers side, and it works ok for me