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This isn't good

crustycurmudgeon

crustycurmudgeon

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I removed my windshield and rear window today in preparation for a new headliner. This is what I found:

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The other side isn't quite as bad, but will need attention as well. I don't have any experience welding nor do I have the equipment, so I'll be having this fixed by someone else. Does this look like a relatively easy (ie: affordable) fix? I guess I'll put the rear window in dry until I have the rust fixed. Sometime before the rain comes, of course.

Bay area folks: any recommendations who I should take this to for repair?

Frank
 
I had a similar issue on my 65 and was able to get it repaired at a body shop for a few hundred dollars.

I remember, back in the day on the East Coast, there used to be a plugging product called "Sulphur Pennies," but it wasn't worth a rat's @ss. You'd just melt and flow it in, sort of like solder, but everyone I knew said it just flaked out eventually. You didn't want to mess with that stuff.
 
That's pretty normal for these cars Frank, should be an easy fix. If your close to Stockton, take it to the Restomod shop. they do this stuff all day long everyday.
 
Frank, I found the same thing on my daughter's '67. In looking at the rear window trim of the '67/'68, looks to me like an inherent flaw that traps water right there.

I just took my grinder and ground it all down to clean metal, both topside and bottomside, then filled it with POR-Patch, completely encapsulating the area, so it can't start rusting again. I figured as small as it was, and not being a visible area, or effecting structural integrity, this would get her by for another 20 or 30 years.
 
Interesting--never heard of Por-patch. Their website says it has a pudding-like consistency. How do you use it to fill such a large hole? After grinding out the rust, I imagine the hole is going to be pretty big, although it will be covered by the trim.

Frank
 
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