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MG MG Y Type - Interior mirror

Hi,

Getting down to some boring detail now...sorry...

One of our number has been good enough to lend me an internal mirror as a pattern to make another....

my question is...was the glass originally unframed.... and what was the colour of the rear of the piece of glass... the one I have is white...?

Thanks

Rob
Rob King

yes unframed. I believe the back of mine may well be brown. Do you need me to check Rob?
Paul Barrow

Rob,

Let There Be Y's (Page 201)confirms that "The Y and YB were equipped with a frameless and backless mirror glass". Doesn't say what colour for the glass back but it does say that the frame and 2 piece clamp were painted crackle black, so I painted mthe back of my mirror glass that colour while I was at it!

None of the 'full frontal' pics in any of the MG books I have show any cars with a white painted rear view mirror, but none show whether they were black, or brown or another dark colour.

Neil
N Wakeman

I have a couple of original interior mirror glasses - all are either chipped, cracked or not functioning well as mirrors - they are all wrinkle black on the back - same as the frame - With Neil I concur.

Tony
A L SLATTERY

Rob: there are no insignificant details in a good rebuild! My own car confirmed Neil's quoted extract above from LTBY - spray crackle black seems to have been the order of the day for the back of the glass and for the clamp. I got some tinted mirror glass of the right thickness cut and chamfered to size by a glazier. Apparently frameless rear-view mirrors in cars have been illegal for some time, because of the danger of breakage, but I don't think this is retrospective!
Tim Griggs

Thanks all for your contributions...once again
Rob King

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