21-11-2020, 06:15 PM
Finished glazing!
Altogether quite a difficult job fitting together the sliding windows. If you refer to the early pictures of the car, you may be able to spot that the rear windows had been glazed with a single sheet of glass, so I've had to restore the body in that area, which had been extensively damaged by the "cosmetic" restorers in the eighties and put back the sliding rear windows.
It's certainly a fiddly job. there's wooden infills the each window frame, then the upper sliding track has to be nailed in, then the fixed pane has to be "glooped" into position with non-setting screen sealer. Finally, the sliding pane, with bottom track is added and the track nailed in. The hardest part is nailing the upper tracks in, upside down, folded into the back of the car!
Still, all done now, although the back window is temporary; I went to fit the toughened replacement and found it was 1/8" too large to fit in the hole! This meant remaking the pattern and taking it back to the glaziers for replacement. It'll be about three weeks....
Next job is to fit the front bonnet rest rubber round the rad shell, which means removing the radiator and shell. That will see the car externally complete, although the inside is just an empty shell. I'll be making progress for the next week or so on the dashboard, which is needed to fit the petrol tank. Once this is done, I have a vague plan to get the engine started over Christmas and maybe get the first 100 miles done, depending on the weather and state of the roads.
Altogether quite a difficult job fitting together the sliding windows. If you refer to the early pictures of the car, you may be able to spot that the rear windows had been glazed with a single sheet of glass, so I've had to restore the body in that area, which had been extensively damaged by the "cosmetic" restorers in the eighties and put back the sliding rear windows.
It's certainly a fiddly job. there's wooden infills the each window frame, then the upper sliding track has to be nailed in, then the fixed pane has to be "glooped" into position with non-setting screen sealer. Finally, the sliding pane, with bottom track is added and the track nailed in. The hardest part is nailing the upper tracks in, upside down, folded into the back of the car!
Still, all done now, although the back window is temporary; I went to fit the toughened replacement and found it was 1/8" too large to fit in the hole! This meant remaking the pattern and taking it back to the glaziers for replacement. It'll be about three weeks....
Next job is to fit the front bonnet rest rubber round the rad shell, which means removing the radiator and shell. That will see the car externally complete, although the inside is just an empty shell. I'll be making progress for the next week or so on the dashboard, which is needed to fit the petrol tank. Once this is done, I have a vague plan to get the engine started over Christmas and maybe get the first 100 miles done, depending on the weather and state of the roads.