Just building up the front window frames. On our car, the smaller fixed window was held secure in 2 places by the same felt covered channel as the main glass. The rear edge was bonded in place, but there is a smaller lipped channel that looks like it should accept a rubber trim. Could someone gander at their car and see how it's fixed please?
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Mine has rubber all the way around. Incidentally, I replaced my glass with UV-treaded plexiglas both for lightness and so I can mechanically SCREW my outside control Omni mirrors to holes bored through the 'window'. Gluing anything to glass takes quite an effort because glass almost instantly acquires a molecular layer of water on it; to get any glues to stick you have to somehow scrub the water layer off and bond very quickly. Note also, plexiglas can be tinted at home for pennies, to match tinted windshields & side windows, the same way plastic sunglasses are tinted.
Forming plexi to the compound curve needed is simple & cheap: lay a piece of plexi on top of a glass window and put the parts in Mom's oven. In a few minutes @ no more than 150F, the plexi will sag around the glass which will be completely unharmed. Remove from oven and let them cool without separating the still soft plexi from the glass. When cool, trim plexi as required. I usually make a few at a time because even UV treated plexi stress-cracks from sunlight after a few years. There's an illustrated article in the POCA Archives on all this.
Hi Chris, on my car there was no rubber in that thin lipped channel you mention.... just some putty to seal between the glass and the (slighly oversize) channel.
IIRC it was the same hard type of putty as found on the bottom edge of the main side glass, where the window mechanism connects. I don't THINK it was RTV of any kind but I didn't take any photos (!).
That said, the bottom edge of my small fixed windows were DEFINITELY bedded in RTV, which sealed between the glass and the short bottom section of rubber channel located there. Curious if you find RTV in that channel also? Regard, Nate
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the various years of mfg of Pantera used different quarter window bedding methods & materials, especially between the 71-72 pre-L and the '72-75 L models, and the wide body cars '80-up.
deniscCaretaker of 8MA1244 '70 Euro Mangusta DRIVE THEM, THEY WERE MEANT TO BE DRIVEN, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT ONE, BUY A POSTER!
Jack, Chris is working on a Mangusta.
Mine has a gap on the exterior. If I recall the vent window is set in small channels that are fixed in the door window frame assembly.
Chris, mine was just as Nate describes---channel along all 3 sides with some smarthy glue along the lower cross bar. And nothing between the window frame and the chrome edging. (Lastly, a consensus to use glue, not screws, for the felt between the big window glass and the metal edging).
Guys, on the topic: what about the rear quarter windows, any advice on how to seal the windows? I've bought spackling like the kind used on old house windows (and this seemed to be what was used before--since the glass is in a kind of sandwich between the exterior trim ring and the internal metal support, no way I'd expect to use any kind of glue there...). Any suggestions? Lee
