Putting the gooseneck mirror heads on the two-point swing away mounts is worth a try if you already have those mounts on the truck. Otherwise I wouldn’t bother, they’ll never be as sturdy. That’s why the factory didn’t ever do that.
The stock original four point mounts are solid. They don’t fold, but when not towing you can rotate the gooseneck mirror heads around so they lean inward instead of outward.
They are what works best. If full swing-away foldability is a deal breaker, you’re in a tough spot.
You can adapt some late model style mirrors but it’s next to impossible to get that to look right, or use the original swing always with the goosenecks and see if they’re tolerable.
The other advantage to the factory style four point truck mirrors is you can add an extra large wide-angle “spot mirror’ on a small stainless arm.
I did swap my ‘99 Dodge from those four point mirrors to the late model style Ram mirrors, because this truck is factory available with either and they look right. I did it to get the power/heated functions.
Honestly, that’s nice and it looks sleeker but when I’m actually trying to look in them to see what I’m doing, especially a lane chance to the right, I miss my old four point “monkey bar’ mirrors.
Those old factory four point with a large extra wide angle spot mirror added are what works best.
There’s one other option... I put these on my old ‘79 Ford and loved them.
Find a set of these old factory three point “West Coast” mirrors.
West coast mirror I haven’t tried but I’m pretty sure they would fit right on the ‘80-‘97 Ford doors.
There are plenty of aftermarket West Coast style mirrors but they’re huge and have too many bars. The original Ford ones are elegantly slick and simple.
The original mirror heads are small I bought a set of 16” tall big-truck mirrors that were constructed with an end-cap on the top and bottom. Those come apart easily and you can score the mirror glass with one of those little pizza-wheel glass cutter tools from a hardware store. If you shorten the glass 4”, then cut down the other parts, when you reassemble it it fits beautifully onto the Ford brackets.
If you want to get fancy, those truck mirrors are available power and heated, but shortening them from big-truck size to pickup size would get complicated.
You’ll have to source those from a wrecking yard. Those were my favorite mirrors ever.
And you can add a big wide-angle spot mirror on a bracket just below them like on big trucks.
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