The sheet metal on my car is all original. All of the trim on the car is mounted in holes that were put there at the factory. That doesn't mean the door, ( side) mirror came from the factory. It was there when I bought the car and as you pointed out none of the factory literature shows the car with a mirror on the door. The 62 parts car I have doesn't have a mirror or holes on the door. When I got it from Arizona, there were two mirror's mounted one on each front fender.
thanks, looks like yours is centered between the chrom and fender ridge I bought my car from the original owner in 1978 they were mounted on the fenders as well !! Im still having trouble adding pics, the loading icon just keeps spinning .. Funny i can upload and change my Avator .. I will try and add pics tommorow Forespeed any chance you can take a closer pic of the mirror location ?? Just showing themirror and door . Just curious, what are the Three holes in the bumper (licence place) for ?? Cooling for Tranny ??
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1963 Acadian Beaumont Sport Deluxe http://www.63acadian.com/
This picture was one I had on file but the car is here at home in the garage so I can take a closeup tomorrow and post it. By the way my mirror is one just like the one that was on my original 62 conv. It turns off center and gives you a better look from the door. I have found those mirrors used mainly on the 62's, not sure of 64 & 65's. I do not believe in running cool lines through the radiator. That only serves to heat up the engine coolant. My 700R4 trans has coolant lines running to a tranny cooler mounted behind the bumper and the holes allow air to cool the tranny fluid. I also do not believe in mounting a tranny cooler on the front of the rad core. My opinion, that also will result in restricting air flow to the rad. If I showed you how small my rad is you would not believe it keeps this car at 190-200 in all driving conditions except maybe 85-90 days crusing in slow traffic and then she has been known to go to 205. I'm not concerned about this in the least. Run good clean mobil one and it doesn't hurt a thing.
I was visiting Beaumontguru today and we were discussing this. He and I are both agreeing that no Acadians left the factory with a mirror installed, at least in your year.
I bought my 65 from the original owner. She gave me all the purchase paperwork from 1965 and it shows she paid the dealer 6 bucks to install a mirror. It was still on when I bought the car and they had put it on the front fender.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
I do have a picture someplace but I cannot find it right now. I had two of those same fender mirrors mounted on two different cars I parted. I just sold one of those mirrors to a member on here to be used on a 61 pontiac.
The best original looking mirror you can buy is the one for a 1963 tempest followed by 1964, 1965 and 1966 pontiac GTO door mirror.
same "forward look" mounting base as those installed by the dealer when they where new. No engraved bowtie.
62 chevy II mirror is close style wise but your stuck with the engraved bowtie 63-67 chevy II mirror has the engraved bowtie and the base is the wrong style for a 63 Acadian.
It makes alot of sense as they were what was already available back in the days on the shelves of every Acadian-PONTIAC dealers.
I've have been researching this subject for a couple of years as i was stuck with the same dilema.
Searched thru a couple a scrapyard and taking pictures of Acadian doors whenever i could.
Most of the times the mirrors were mounted on the door next to the vent windows ( between the leading edge and the stainless molding.
i never could figure out why they were mounted closer to the front of the door than as installed on a regular chevy II or chevelle ????
Correct style and correct location seems to be like the one shown on this 1963 Pontiac tempest but i do not think they reproduce mirrors for those. That is why i think the one for the gto of the 3 following years are the one that are the closest in look.
Those pics are helpfull IMO for the correct location on a 1963 Acadian. ( closer to the fender-door gap than on a chevrolet ). That is what i ended up buying ( GTO ) but my mirror is not installed yet .
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Correct style and correct location seems to be like the one shown on this 1963 Pontiac tempest but i do not think they reproduce mirrors for those.
Try Ames Performance Parts. They are there. 1964 Pontiac mirror.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
I'm sure you are putting the mirrors on for more than just looks. What spot are the mirrors actually useable at. I know we had this concern when we put mirrors on our 63 Parisienne. If we were going to drill holes I wanted something that was going to work!!! Plus our vent window still opens, so we can use our 255 AC.
I totally agree with the conclusion our Acadian's used the same mirror as the 63 Tempest. I have two of these mirror's that were removed from 62-63 Acadian's. They are no longer usable as the heads were broken off both other than that they are identical to the 63 tempest.
