One Piece Window Conversion

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Originally Posted by tutone

Back in to middle 90s when "street rodding" was popular, body mods like the one piece windows and v-butted windshields was what everybody was doing. I built a 38 Chevy coupe. I don't have a before shot of this car on my phone, so instead I will post a Google photo of one and one of the finished car. The doors on a 37-38 have a slight compound bend to them. The moment I cut out the vent window structure, I opened a "pandora's box" of trouble. I started with the pass side and cut and welded, fitted, cut and welded some more. The tracks were off a slight amount from side to side. The vent windows were designed to make the curve in the door less of a problem. Air flow sucked, They always had a little wind noise but they turned out ok. As good as I could hope for, I guess. Probably 80 hours total on both doors. Cost was -0- as I did it all, made a glass pattern and had door glasses cut. I won't do it again but when you get there, post pictures.

I would have thought the 'wind noise' would have been reduced vs the vent windows. That sucks to read....

Originally Posted by lkt1954

OLD ROCK&ROLLER- I'm really leaning toward one piece products for my windows. The reason is they do not have the little filler plate for the bottom from corner like brother's has.
When I talked to them they take about 4-5 weeks to get, I'm going to wait till I get closer with final assembly to order (cab just made it to the paint shop to get the firewall, jams and interior painted). Maybe is Christmas doesn't break the bank, I might order after the first of the year.

Seems like pre-fitting things for the doors (prior to any paint/body work) would be a good idea based on the issues noted within this thread. That would allow the opportunity to make any tweaks deemed necessary.