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Offline tsollazo

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Windshield & Backglass
« on: May 28, 2015, 11:38:43 AM »
Is the glass for skylark/gs the same as chevelle, gto/tempest, etc?

Thank you!!!

Trying to get this done before the BCA show!!

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Re: Windshield & Backglass
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2015, 12:15:28 PM »
Front glass is same as all A-bodies.  Rear glass is common with a LeMans or GTO, but not all the other A-bodies.  There was some variation in the rear glass. 
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Re: Windshield & Backglass
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2015, 01:59:20 PM »
Thanks Brian!!  :occasion14:

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A example of variation . . . (Re: Windshield & Backglass)
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2015, 09:18:29 PM »
Dear Tony, Brian, and mid-60s "victims" of exaggerations in humor . . .   :laughing7:

Front glass is same as all A-bodies.  Rear glass is common with a LeMans or GTO, but not all the other A-bodies.  There was some variation in the rear glass.


That is 100% correct!!  :thumbsup:

Here is just one example of the variation . . . . .



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Re: Windshield & Backglass
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2015, 06:53:09 PM »
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Still a very nice wagon.  Just need to get it running again so you can enjoy it.


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Definitely the wrong kind of "race." (Was: Windshield & Backglass)
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2015, 09:17:32 PM »
Dear Loren and mid-60s Buick procrastinators . . . .

Still a very nice wagon.  Just need to get it running again so you can enjoy it.

That is true, but I find myself in a most unpleasant sort of predicament.  You see I bought a headlight upgrade about 6 months ago based on a BMW Hella design that still fits in the U.S. standard 5-1/4" quad setup.  I should have gotten this upgrade done by now - right?  Well, to make "procrastinators" tale of owe as short as possible, I just started on the framework to hold the headlight relays.

So the question is . . . . will TA-Performance finish the engine before I get the new headlights in  . . . or not!

Isn't life  . . . exciting? . . . .

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Re: Windshield & Backglass
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2015, 09:40:28 PM »
Darn deadlines. Or is that incentive?

Hope that engine comes soon for you.

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