Re: IML: A/C & tinted glass

["Pete Engel" <peter.engel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can add some info on this topic.  Tinted glass was definitely NOT included
in the price of A/C up through the mid-60s.  It was an extra cost option,
typically about $40, in addition to the $400 or so for A/C.  If the owner
didn't order it, it wasn't included.  Maybe dealers recommended it (which
would have been wise of them).

My 65 Polara convertible has factory A/C but no tinted glass (or delete code
on the fender tag).  Conversely, my 65 Monaco HAS full tinted glass but no
factory A/C.  Weird.

By the late 60s I think the Chrysler policy had changed.  The dealer
catalogs state that tinted glass is recommended on A/C-equipped cars and
automatically installed unless the buyer specifically refused it.  You still
paid separately for the tinted glass, but didn't have to specify it.  Option
code G21 is tinted glass delete code for A/C cars.  The original purchaser
of the 10k mile 69 LeBaron I came across a few years ago was such a buyer.
He didn't want tinted glass and the fender tag shows G21.

Pete in PA

From: "Dick Benjamin" <dickb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: IML: In defense of "customs"
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:53:31 -0700

Roy, I believe tinted glass was included in the price of AC - so it may not
have been listed as a separate option in AC cars.   AC'd cars had tinted
glass unless it was specifically omitted, which I have heard of only in the
case of movie studio cars.  Those turn up from time to time in private hands
around here (LA).  This of course is to improve the photography of people in
the cars.






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