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The windshield
laminate developed several air bubbles along the vertical plane on the
passenger side - probably baked by the sun. Time for a replacement
glass. Should I make sure to get the correct date code? 
P.S. For those of you unfamiliar
with glass date codes, those are the tiny
little letters in the corner of the glass that can be used to calculate
the "supposed" date of manufacture of the glass.
Of course there are lots of businesses quite prepared to go
"back-in-time" and manufacture glass with any date you want.
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New is nice. 
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Installed - finally!
This is the proper sealant to
install the windshield.
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37 years, it's time for all new weather-striping. |
Both door window channel liners
(front). |
Both door window channel liners
(top/rear).
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Both door vent window
weather-strips. |
Both main door weather-strips.
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Both door window seals and
related hardware. |
Windshield weather-strip.
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These are new door hinge
weather-strips -- left and right. |
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The stainless trim
around the windshield and rear glass is in great shape. After some
cleaning and polishing, back on it goes. A word of caution -- if
removing these on your car, be very careful as they are easily
bent or scratched and are extremely expensive to replace.
Oops, one black interior trim
piece crept into the photo.
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I don't want to have
to remove the stainless trim again, so the prudent thing to do is to use
all new clips and hardware, front and rear, to make sure
everything stays properly in place. |
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Both outside mirrors
were pitted. Although only the driver's door got one in St. Louis, we're
going with two again, like we did for the last 33 or so years. |
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The mirror support
mounting screws were rusted into the reinforcement brackets, so, here
are the replacement brackets (left and right). |
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Since we're using so
much new shiny metal on the car, how could we ignore the rear license
plate housing. New is nice! |
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