So My street car has been sitting for 9 months. It has a blown motor and a blown tranny.

Unfortunately its in a rickety shed and a wind storm blew out one of the roof supports and smashed the fender in.

so this weekend I rolled it out and hosed the dust off.
hopefully in the next few weeks I'll start the body/motor/and tranny work. Thanks to SLITS I have a tranny to build off of, and I picked up a used engine with supposedly good compression...

But let me get to the point of the post.
when I rolled it out this weekend, I found that the wind damage had also broken both of the mirrors on the car.

I had the "turbo" style mirrors that I had put on it around 1985. I think the company used to make toronados, baby turbos and full sized turbos.

because the mounting holes are already there.
does anyone know if they still sell this type of mirror?

I checked my tweeks catalogue without any luck
is there a good online VW store?
I'll look on pelican later today too.

thanks all!

brant

The company that produces them is called Vitaloni. I've been looking for a passenger side "baby tornado". Doing a search came up with nothing, but they do occasionally show up on e-bay. I'll be interested too to see if anyone has a source for these mirrors.

What I read was that the plant making the mirrors burn down and they never recover. So no new mirrors, You'll have to find good use ones.

good to know John and Tony.

So from your experience who makes/sells aftermarket style mirrors?

I don't mind changing style, but I would love to find something with a similar mount so that it will cover up the mounting holes I already have.

anyone have a mounting pic of a 911 style mirror?
maybe I should convert if that will cover up my holes...

brant

They arn't cheal anymore.....

http://www.talbotco.com/talbot_mirror.htm

Try this: cheap mirrors

James

THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU.....
!!!!!

perfectly within my budget!

Marg.. those are neat, but do not go with my 1980's miami vice theme at all!

brant

I've got one from this POS parts car. Let me look at it tonight and get back to you.

Paul

I'll take it paul if you find it..
let me know where to send the $$$$

brant

Thanks James...that's the price we sold them for 16 years ago when I was in the parts business!!

Is this a "turbo"? It says Vitaloni on it. I have a left and right with mounting brackets and seals.

Jim,

I think that set was called the toronado (made by vitaloni)
I'll take a picture of the turbo tonight and add it to this thread.

brant

Vitaloni went out of business over a year ago. There is a guy on Ebay that sells them still and must have stock piled a lot of them. He tries to sell them for like $125.00 a pair and up. Different colors too. I have a box of them in my garage, of course. I like them personally. Just gave one to another club member who was missing one. The Empi is made to look like it but at a lot less money. James posted the link for them.

brant,

Here is what I have. It has the following on the backside of the stem just above the base.

vitaloni III e3 32642

The mounting bolts are 3 3/4" center to center.

This first picture is after I cleaned it up. The others are befor I cleaned it up.

before cleaning

You can't tell by the pic above but the glass and mirror is good. No haze or cracks.

It has a cast aluminum base that has a few chips in the paint. NBD

last.
PM me if you like it.

Thanks a ton Paul for taking the time to dig through your stash... take pictures... post them.. Everything..

Unfortuanately that doesn't match the type I had/have
I think I'll buy a cheap pair from James link of the baby style.

Here is the normal turbo style. I think they are close to the "baby's", just slightly larger:

other side:

No problem.

So does anyone else need a mirror? Cheap!

Paul