Aftermarket slanted/offset side mirror options for a 67 Fury?

[edbods]

Installed some nice rectangular mirrors on my 67 Fury/Dodge but the visibility still kinda sucks and I think I know why - on newer cars, factory mirrors actually jut out a bit to the side of the car. On these, the stock mirrors are still within the confines of the total width of the car

The angle doesn't really show it as well as I wanted it to, but there's about 1/2 to 1 inch between the outer edge of the mirror, and the door handles. Does anyone know of any square mirrors that have an angled arm? Something like below, but with a squared/rectangular mirror like above, and with a long mounting base like in the below second pic?

 

[CBODY67]

Perhaps you can find a round "truck" convex mirror which can stick onto your existing mirror's mirror, on top of the existing mirror surface? Reason I say "truck" is that that might be where you might find one, from a truck accessories seller. Attaching with stick-on tape, they can be removed with a sharp razor blade, if desired.

As you discovered, the rh mirrors usually show only the right hand side of the car. Still can be used for "aiming", but little else. If the mirrors stuck out past the side of the car, they would be more prone to getting knocked off, by observation. Garage door edges usually don't give much.

From about the earlier 1980s, all USA cars with rh mirrors also had a slight convex contour to them, for wider vision. Those were quite nice, with their wider width, in an elongated oval shape (as "racing mirrors" had).

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[edbods]

I only want the mirror to stick out no more than the door handles, those actually poke out quite a bit so as long as the mirrors don't extend further than those I'm happy.

I've angled the mirrors so that they cover my blind spots as per this diagram, it works great with flat mirrors when reversing because you just need to move your head around until you can see the side of the car, and it doesn't throw off depth perception like convex mirrors do.

My main issue is that no matter how the mirrors are mounted, because of the position of the factory (and aftermarket) mirrors, they can never actually see down the sides of the car which is rather unfortunate, but would be resolved with an angled mount. Wonder if I could 3D print an adapter to tilt it out more...

 

[Big_John]

My main issue is that doing this, because of the position of the factory (and aftermarket) mirrors, they can never actually see down the sides of the car which is rather unfortunate, but would be resolved with an angled mount. Wonder if I could 3D print an adapter to tilt it out more...

Here's the accessories catalog page showing the available mirrors. I'm thinking the conical may give some additional adjustment over what you have now. Thing is, you won't know until you try and it's probably not going to be cheap to buy, especially for you.

From my own experience, adding the passenger side mirror doesn't do much. I have them on all my old cars and since my neck is fused from C-5 to C-7, I take any help I can, so the passenger side mirror is adjusted "the common way" so I can see to back out of the garage and that is marginal at best.

Adding a wedge may help. Chrysler used a wedge on their '63-64 passenger side mirrors to tip the mirror. I'd try it... Nothing to lose but time and filament for the printer.

 

[edbods]

Thanks. Interesting to note that all the mirrors in those pictures seem to be mounted on angled surfaces in such a way that they can see down the sides of the vehicle. Curious as to how the factory door mirror(s) on a 67-68 Fury were mounted to see if they jut over the side a bit.