New Door Glass

[Junior T.]

I just got my two door glasses in and they are nothing like the originals. They are not double pane and they have DOT516 Safety Plate AS2GU on them. Is this acceptible?
My originals were discoloring around the edges when I took them apart from the frame, but nothing else was wrong with them.

[Junior T.]

Re: New Door Glass

Sorry......I thought I would add this question to this. I have looked EVERYWHERE for a late 1960 trunk mat. Romeo, Al Knock and Ecklers told me they had one and shipped me the wrong ones. The late 1960 w/o power top was different than the rest. Any of you run across this?

[Jack H.]

Re: New Door Glass

An old restorer's trick (before availability of reproduction glass) is to walk the scrap yards and find a donor car from the era of your car with a LARGER, flat, side glass window having acceptible date code.

Now, use your original side glass as a template and cut the donor glass down to correct size/shape. When done, you've got 'correct/original' glass to replace your side glass...

Of course, this 'trick' doesn't work when the target glass is curved!

Best, Jack Humphrey

[Junior T.]

Re: New Door Glass

So does that mean that this repo glass will not pass?

[Gary B.]

New Door Glass

Junior,

If the DOT with vendor ID # are visible and the glass is on a pre-DOT year ('68 and earlier) car, then yes you should get a deduct. For door window glass I believe at least one vendor (Auto City Glass, I think) will work with you to place the government required DOT marking low enough so that it's hidden under the rubber gasket when installed in the frame.

Gary