Leather hood straps on a 7?

[coffee break]

By the way, escondidoron, where did you get those side mirrors for your Series 2? I love them.

Ditto! :cooldude:

[tio pancho]

With latches and a strap you are in a classic "belt and suspenders" mode.

 

Safety First......

 

David

[subtlez28]

My '62 Super Seven has a pair of "baby" leather hood straps:

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6153/6142568074_2b49277805_b.jpg

 

I like those!

[escondidoron]

By the way, escondidoron, where did you get those side mirrors for your Series 2?

 

Thanks. I like them too.

 

They're a joint effort home made project. I got them third hand from fellow lister Slomove, who kindly donated them to my project. Similarly he was given them by another California Caterham Club member, Doug. If you look closely, you can see them on Slomove's car in his avatar. Here is a pic of them from his installation:

 

Slomove made a new set of tripod stalks when he inherited them. The mirrors themselves are simple chrome bullet mirrors with convex glass. Like Slomove, I also made new tripod stalks to better fit my taste in height / extension distance when I got the mirrors from him.

 

The tripod stalks are 3/8" O.D. aluminum tubing that was sourced from our local hobby shop. The soft tubing is pretty easily bent with a brake line bending tool. After bending, the ends of the tubes are tapped to accept stainless threaded studs, 5/16"-18 at the scuttle and 10-32 at the mirror. Here is a pic of Slomove's original tripod tubes:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2530/5778066827_1098cbc87c_b.jpg

 

After bending and fitting the studs (installed with Loctite 242) it is a simple matter to polish the tubes, initially with Scotchbrite and then followed up with Simichrome polish.

 

And here is a pic of them on my car before I polished the tubes:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3241/5778616052_a2378a8423_b.jpg

Edited February 18, 2013 by escondidoron

[Toyotus 7]

Thank you for the information. I had looked at similar mirrors in pictures of a car from Japan and I had been wondering whether the tripods were fabricated by the owner. They are excellent....so is your car.