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Try to elaborate a bit.
1) the style of trim on a new replacement windshield that you buy is entirely different than the style of trim on anything '85 and older. The older stuff has a shiny bit of metal (stainless?) that sits on top of a rubber surround. The newer windshield has much smaller, flush mount rubber trim with no shiny surround. So if you put a new windshield in your older car, the trim on the windshield won't match the trim on the rear window.
2) So, you might say - well I'll just remove the trim from the old windshield, remove the trim from the replacement windshield -- and put the trim from the old windshield on the new one. That way my trim will match front and rear. Well - first off, I was unable to remove the old trim without bending the shiny metal bits. Others may have solved that problem. Second - the new windshield is not as thick as the old windshields -- I suspect that will pose a problem trying to fit the old trim on a new windshield as the old trim is designed for the thickness of the old windshield. However, as I stated before - I'm not sure of the implications because I never tried it. On mine, I just blacked out the shiny bits on the rear window to make it better match the lack of anything shiny on the new front trim.
3) The rubber trim on the new windshields is slightly smaller than the rubber trim on the old windshields. If you lift up the edge of the rubber trim on your current windshield -- where it sits against the paint - you'll see that the paint underneath doesn't look the same as the paint on the car. It's been protected against the elements by the rubber trim - and often there's an actual depression (a 'line') etched into the paint where the edge of the rubber trim has been pressing on it all these decades. Because the new trim is slightly smaller than the old trim, if you put a new windshield in, you can see very clearly that "paint line" -- because the new trim DOES NOT cover it up the way the old trim did. I removed the new trim that came on my new windshield and replaced it with WIDER universal trim that covered up the paint line. My paint line was even worse than most as I'd had my car repainted and simply had them mask at the trim line. I should've had them remove the windshield to do the repaint.
A lot of what's covered above is documented here -- http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=341873&page=2
Start on page two and work your way through. If you want matching trim front/rear - the wild card for you is 1) can you remove your existing trim without damaging it. I could not. 2) Can it be successfully reapplied to the new, thinner windshield? Simply don't know.
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