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Subject:Re: Brown Rear View Mirror
From:J Stewart
Date:Mon, 4 Nov 2013 00:47:15 +0000

LOL, I thought Chris was serious! Actually brown ones are very hard to come by, almost every one I have come across in a junk yard crumbled when I tried to remove it-the only one that didn't resides in my '85 Westy (right above my pristine brown dash, which also came from a junk yard-and much harder to swap out than a rear view mirror!) . The last black one I sold on Ebay fetched $56.00-that surprised me. Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message -----
> In a message dated 10/21/2013 9:49:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> fittdog8848@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> If anyone has an extra brown rear view mirror they are willing to part
> with....I sure would appreciate it. I have been stalking the samba for
> some
> time and thought "why not reach out here".
> i have one for sale for $200. lol. actually, if you find a perfect
> brown one, that might be what someone would want for it. they are
> essentially made of unobtanium.... or some sort of crappy brown
> polymer that
> doesn't hold up to the UV rays is more like it.
> Anyway just replace it with a black one. they arent affected by "Sun
> Rot"
> like the brown mirrors and window crank knobs are.
> you can usually find the black ones for less than $20 bucks. if your
> deadset on brown, just spray paint it with some krylon fusion brown
> spray paint.

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