Reply to "Goose 8MA642 Refurb and Repaint"

Congrats, car & color look fantastic!! Please keep us posted as the re-assembly moves forward!

Hopefully somebody has a solution for that elusive seal - - I've never gotten any handle on what the original version (if any...) looked like. My car came with a strip of urethane foam, ~3/4" wide, adhered to the body surface, in that small 'valley' just ahead of the pinch weld. Height varied across the length of this strip, depending on the size of the gap to fill. (IIRC it was thinnest across the roof area, and significantly thicker along the two sides). Maybe it served a purpose but it didn't look like an OEM feature.

All I know is that originally there was a faux-chrome plastic edge-bead along the pinch weld flange, where you have the seal installed. The available clearance over the flange is minimal (especially at the top corners of the cabin area), so nothing thicker than edge-bead fits.

So for an original look, faux-chrome beading is a 'yes', gasket/seal is a '?!? '

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