One day my wife asked can I get a Inside Mirror on my side you mean a on the Sunvisor ....YES Well never new that a $1.00 mirror would end up costing $350.00 total Not the traditional normal 4 hole Sun Visor for $40.00 ... I need a 2 Hole Mount searched for months found nothing but crap until I discovered that KUGEL makes a perfect set. Wife is now Happy
Jerry Kugel is a bracket genius...I used his '32 Ford front frame repair pieces (4 ft. of front rails to weld onto damaged Deuce frames) on 5 or 6 bad frames, what a product! (these predated the 'Deuce Factory rails') Saved the day, or I would have had to do them from scratch... His sons have picked up the torch, and are also meticulous in their product and development. I was recalling the other day when Jim Jacobs worked for Jerry, in his City of Industry shop. They designed a 'street rod spindle' for an 'unique' IFS... (not HAMB stuff, but 'out of the box'.) Jerry also designed the slotted arm for automatic tranny linkage. It was now possible to link an automatic trans with any shifter with the right setting, adjustable from point of radius. Good geometry.
Those are nice! My wife is not happy, or was not just last week.. I have been fixing up an old o/t truck for a daily and driving it at the same time. She is a visormirroraholic, the bridge ahead could be out and she'd make sure she looks OK for the dive. So while we're tooling around and I'm wondering if the oil pressure is OK, where that knock is coming from, etc., she's hammering on that passenger visor, which desperately needs attention and takes about 50 ft. lbs. of torque to swing it up and down, squeaking and shuddering the whole way. In the back of my mind I'm thinking OK, as soon as I fix that leaky valve cover gasket I smell, bump the timing a bit, change out the rear shocks, adjust the trans, I'll lube that visor before she breaks the damn thing. And of course I always forget, and off we go on another trip, squeak, squeak goes the visor. So the other day I'm driving along fretting about this drive line vibration I haven't been able to diagnose, she's yammering on about something I'm trying to ignore, and here comes that friggin' visor I haven't fixed down again, SQUEAK. I slam on the brakes, throw it in park, get out, go around, open the passenger door, grab the visor with both hands, rip it right off and toss it like a frisbee into the countryside. Nice and quiet for the rest of the trip but I had to make my own dinner. Anyway, those are nice visors.
That sounds like me when I was married to the last one I got rid of! Have had a doll for the last 38 years, so to the previous one: "Thanks for leaving, 'Jack'! Oh, and for helping me find my lost temper."
I used to laugh when my Dad bitched about women pulling the visor down to check their face, lipstick or hair every time one got in his car. I thought that he should have just been damned glad that the gals he ran around with liked to look presentable when they were with him. I'm going to have to remember those Kugel visors as the Model A Vic will assuredly need a set.
The early production header panels have the 4 screw mounts and fortunately my sedan was so equipped. HRP
Would have been a lot cheaper to duct tape a pretty picture of her on the visor. She'd look good every time she checked for years and years to come.
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