Mirror on Driver's Side Door

[David Lenington]

The driver's side door mirror on my 1964 Avanti R1 changes position when driven.  Please advise if the mirror can be tightened.  

[mfg]

2 hours ago, David Lenington said:

The driver's side door mirror on my 1964 Avanti R1 changes position when driven.  Please advise if the mirror can be tightened.  

Reproduction Avanti Stratoview mirrors are notorious for this problem… The mirror head itself is very heavy, and there is no easy way to correct the looseness without removing the mirror glass…. and even with the glass removed, there may not be a really permanent way to tighten up the ball stud.

[regnalbob]

Here is an article from the 1975 Avanti Newsletter that may help.

[mfg]

I remember Lou Carini. (the fellow that wrote the above article on Avanti mirror repair)

Lou was a real ‘spark plug’ for the (then) Mass-RI Chapter of SDC (now called Ocean Bay Chapter)

Lou was very proud of his beautiful Studebaker Avanti, which he had installed real wire wheels and ‘Vogue type’ tires on.

Lou’s sadly missed!