[Dan Case]

Walpres brand mirrors of the type like the common Talbot brand one (both companies made more than one design in more than one size at the same time, and more variants outside of the Cobra era) seen on Cobras, 427 Cobras, and occassional GT350 perhaps are quite rare now. It took lots of looking and asking around to find one for a Cobra owner whose original invoice indicated the car originally had one. The owner of a GT40 MKI road car that was missing its original twin mirrors was told by the GT40 crowd that he was looking for Walpres mirrors and not Talbot brand ones.


The Talbot designs, at least some of them, are still being made and they sell repair parts for original 1960s mirrors also. It is so easy to get vintage or new made Talbot mirrors it is little doubt to me why so many cars now have Talbot made mirrors. New old stock 1960s made Talbot mirrors are not all that rare.