Re: IML: '57-'66 ?windshield glass interchange? ?Really?!

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

I had heard that the interchange will work one way and not the other. It was that the newer style-flatter windshield WILL fit in the older cars, but the compound curved one will NOT fit '64-'66 hardtops. Also, I am probably wrong here, but it seems to me if the new style-flatter one would fit a '64-'66 convertible, then they wouldn't have carried on with the old design specifically for those cars. 

Paul

In an email dated Tue, 1 2 2005 9:15:09 am GMT, Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Hey Bob, 
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>That contradicts what all the books and everyone says.
> Seems to me that "somebody" would have gotten
>inventive and spread the word before now based on the
>scarcity of the 57-63 glass?
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>Now, I'm not one to argue with a man who runs a place
>called Imperial Heaven, because the propietor could be
>logically called an imperial God, >>BUT<<, did I read
>correctly that you can fit a 1966 non-convertible
>windshield into a 1960 frame/gasket?
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>I'll presume that there is some sort of difference? 
>Perhaps the earlier ones had a curve at the top (my
>'60's do) and the later ones were flat from top to
>bottom in the center (I "think" my 64 is)?
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>Geez, it's dark out and now I am dying to go look at
>the 60 and 64 that are parked next to each other....
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>You don't have some cars with empty front sockets to
>hold an example up to just to make certain? ?Did you
>already pull this one off?
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>Sorry to sound dumbfounded/skeptical, but that's
>really big news if it is so.
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>-Kenyon
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>--- Bob <impparts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> The 1957 thru 1966 windshields will all interchange.
>> I have 57/66 imperials
>> that have a mix match of windshield glass in them.
>> Just my 2 cents.
>> THANKS ?Bob H
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <RandalPark@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: IML: '57-'66 Imperial wrap around
>> windshield glass, hardtops &
>> convertibles
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>> > There were two windshields. '57 through '63, and
>> '64 through '66
>> convertibles shared the same windshield. '64-'66
>> hardtops had a windshield
>> that was flat top to bottom, but still curved around
>> the sides.
>> >
>> > To say it another way, '57 through '66 are all the
>> same, except the '64
>> through '66 hardtops. I have been told that they
>> will interchange, but I
>> have not tried it, and I don't know anyone who has.
>> Unless someone here has
>> done it, I don't believe this is true.
>> >
>> > When you have a '65 Crown Four Door sitting next
>> to a '62 LeBaron
>> Southampton, you can easily see the difference.
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> > In an email dated Tue, 1 2 2005 3:21:34 am GMT,
>> "Wm. R. Ulman"
>> <twolaneblacktop@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> > >OK, let me get this right. '57-'63 Imperial
>> windshield is the same all
>> > >models, EXCEPT Convertible, which had a "bump" at
>> the top for wind
>> > >deflection, or something along those lines. I had
>> a '60 vert with the
>> > >correct windshield. Now I have a '66 vert, and
>> you are saying that any
>> > >HARDTOP windshield from '57-'66 will fit
>> correctly? Did the '64-'66
>> > >convertibles not have their own windshield as in
>> previous years? No
>> "bump"?
>> > >I got a small rock chip in mine, which I was able
>> to have filled, and you
>> > >can't even notice it unless you look for it, and
>> stare at it, then you
>> can
>> > >see it was filled. It put me in mind to get a
>> replacement at some point,
>> > >but I was under the impression there was still a
>> convertible windshield
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>> > >'66, but you could use a hardtop one (or sedan)
>> if need be.
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>> > >Verification requested, please.
>> > >
>> > >Thanks,
>> > >
>> > >Bill Ulman
>> > >Seattle, WA
>> > >'66 Crown Convertible Coupe - Doris Day
>> > >
>> > >-----Original Message-----
>> > >From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > >[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Tony Lindsey
>> > >Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 5:06 PM
>> > >To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > >Subject: Re: IML: 63 Imp glass
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>> > >On Jan 31, 2005, at 3:59 PM, A. Lance Espinosa
>> wrote:
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>> > >> If you live in Florida come get it....
>> > >> I have all the glass out of a 63 Salon New
>> Yorker. I think the
>> > >> windshields are a match. 98.6% sure.
>> > >> If I dont have to shipp it $90.00.
>> > >
>> > >They are NOT the same, not at all. The '63
>> Imperial windshield is the
>> > >most common Imperial windshield ever, being used
>> from 1957-63 on all
>> > >models, and from 64-66 on the convertibles.
>> > >
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