Homemade Outside Mirror Mount

[Tom Wesenberg]

I don't like to drill holes in my cars, so I made this mirror mount to clamp on the top door hinge. The mirror and arm was bought at a swap meet and is meant to bolt onto a round windshield frame, so I had to make a mount with a round post. You can see in the third picture that I used rubber to shim for the diameter difference, but I will make and weld a steel collar onto the post. The rubber allows too much vibration.

I started by making a steel curved plate to fit the hinge curve, then welded it to a steel tube. I drilled holes in the tube to allow the screw head to fit through, as well as a screwdriver to tighten them. I made a thread bar to fit the inside of the hinge. As shown this is clamped to the door half of the hinge, so it swings out of the way when the door is opened.