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I don't know about the mirror, but here's my take on some of the rest:
Wheels -- I think some of the earlier soccerballs did not come with the black fill, and I've seen others where it was bead-blasted off; I think they look better this way and probably will have mine done like that eventually, but meantime I've had some success touching up the black with "appliance epoxy" spray paint. I don't think the kind of paint you use matters so much as the surface preparation -- it's really hard to get dust and dirt out of the pores in the metal. I took mine to a coin-op car wash and blasted them for a while, then brought them home, dried them, and scrubbed the paint areas with solvent before respraying them. It wasn't perfect but the paint has stuck pretty well.
As for the side marker lights, I can't remember whether the 1972 models are different from the 1974 (mine) but last week at an autocross I was parked next to a Triumph Spitfire 1500 and noticed that his side marker lights were EXACTLY the same as mine (not surprising as Lucas manufactured both.) That means it should be easy to get them from any Brit-car parts shop. Motorsports Sweden has them too, but of course if you're in the US it's much easier/cheaper to use a US source so you don't have to get involved with international payments and shipping.
"Only" 2000 made in 1972 sounds about right -- actually, they never made many more than that in ANY year, and some years they made less. What I read a while back on the 'net was that the fiberglass bodies were made and installed by a company (Valmet in Finland, maybe...?) whose main business was building railroad cars; Sonett bodies were just a sideline, and their maximum capacity was 2,500 bodies per year, so yearly production was always less than that.
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