I found the score of the year. I found a set of seals for the rear popout windows in great shape. I figure them a 8 or 9 out of 10. No cracking, rubber still soft, some paint overspray on the outside, some impressions from the latch, and a small chunk (smaller than 1/8 inch) of rubber missing around the latch area on each of them. I've never seen seals that weren't cracking before, so this was a great score!! The seals on my car are a 5 or 6.
From a '68 P130 that was totaled from a recent flood in the area (5 months ago-6 inches of mud in the inside of the car). Paid $10 for the seals and windows per set. The windows have the later latches, my car is a '66, and I have an extra set of windows with the correct latches for my car, but for $10, I couldn't go wrong.
The question is, how to install them. I did the stupid thing when I removed them and bent the metal frame on the bottom to get them out(because I wasn't going to leave them to investigate how to remove them correctly). The frames bent back without permanently damaging them (luck I guess). Looking at them now, that's not the correct way to remove or install them. Seems like the seals need to be installed from the inside of the car (rigid part of the seal is on the inside of the car), but what's the easiest way to install them? Install it by the bottom first, and work the rest in place or install the top and work the bottom in? Or is there a trick?
I don't think I'll find another set of seals in better shape again, unless I find some NOS or they start making new seals, and I don't want to use the fixed glass seals.
Paul
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