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57burb
Posted 2023-02-08 5:43 PM (#627449 - in reply to #627446)
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Location: DFW, TX		Thank you all, I appreciate the compliments. I'm just glad I haven't screwed it up too bad since it was 'finished'.
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57burb
Posted 2023-05-05 1:21 PM (#629338 - in reply to #627449)
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Location: DFW, TX		Took the car to Lone Star Round Up again last month. There was a nice '57 Plymouth 4dr HT there and a (almost FL!) wildly chopped '53 Plymouth. Come on out to this huge show next year, we need more representation!



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57burb
Posted 2025-06-27 6:29 PM (#640605 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: DFW, TX		So a funny thing happened at this year's LSRU.

Nobody was within 30 feet of the car, the temperature was 75-80* all morning, and this rear window had never been removed from the car. Just a freak deal.

I thought I had a deal for a replacement, but it seems to have fallen through. If anyone knows where I can get a tinted "high" rear window for '57-59 Chrysler or Desoto, preferably within driving distance of north Texas, you'd be my hero.



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Finsinthemirror
Posted 2025-06-29 2:42 PM (#640622 - in reply to #640605)
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Location: CA		That's horrible, I'm so sorry that happened. Have you tried Bo Malefors in Arizona?
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Powerflite
Posted 2025-06-29 8:07 PM (#640624 - in reply to #111659)
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57burb
Posted 2025-07-01 10:52 PM (#640645 - in reply to #640622)
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Location: DFW, TX		Haven’t contacted Bo yet. Great suggestion. Timo has none in inventory and is at least six months out.
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ToMopar
Posted 2025-07-02 6:45 AM (#640647 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: D-70199 Heslach		I think searching in the neighborhood is hopeless, you have to expand the search radius to Northern Europe where the fwd-look density is very high


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If you need help with language contact Mark here on forum, nickname: spinout
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1960fury
Posted 2025-07-02 10:25 PM (#640659 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: northern germany		Ouch, sorry this happened. One of my nightmares. both sides parallel, looks like a shot to me, from far away, declining. Have you checked the pavement for impact signs? It surely didn't break just by its own.



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57burb
Posted 2025-07-04 6:49 AM (#640677 - in reply to #640659)
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Location: DFW, TX		It 100% absolutely, with certainty, no question, no doubt about it, indubitably, exploded all on its own.

I’ve spoken to eight people that were in the vicinity when it happened. All of the reported no one was nearby when it happened.

More than that, it was at high noon in the geographic center of Texas’ largest car show. No one pulled out a gun and started shooting. It just didn’t happen.

Anecdotally, four other people reported that these big back windows have shattered in cars, and when removed and stored away. There is tension in that design.
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1960fury
Posted 2025-07-04 9:15 AM (#640678 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: northern germany		Fun fact, you don't have to be "nearby" to hit something using a rifle. Long distance shot 45° could be from many, many miles away. I don't buy that sudden explosion after almost 70 years in normal weather, without strain on the body.
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57burb
Posted 2025-07-04 10:02 AM (#640679 - in reply to #640678)
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Location: DFW, TX		A ballistic trajectory from ‘miles away’ wouldn’t hit one window in two places, low, not hit anything else, and send the glass outward on both sides.

I don’t know what else to tell you.
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1960fury
Posted 2025-07-04 9:48 PM (#640686 - in reply to #111659)
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57burb
Posted 2025-07-05 2:11 PM (#640691 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: DFW, TX		Yes. What you can’t see is that there is a 40’ tall building about 100 yards to the left of that photo, and that building sits atop a large hill with a parking lot on the other side. It’s a lot of words to say that the only place where such a trajectory is even possible is within 100 yards of the car, and my friend’s Ranchero that is parked next to it would have a bullet hole too.

It simply did not happen. Can we drop it?
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1960fury
Posted 2025-07-06 9:01 AM (#640693 - in reply to #111659)
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56D500boy
Posted 2025-07-06 10:42 AM (#640695 - in reply to #640693)
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I heard that there were three shooters. At least one of which was on a grassy knoll.

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57burb
Posted 2025-10-23 10:48 AM (#641774 - in reply to #111659)
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Location: DFW, TX		Glad to report the car is repaired with an OEM rear window and back on the road.

It made the 1200 mile round trip to Bartlesville OK and back without any issue, so I'm calling it resolved. Still no evidence of a shooting.



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Powerflite
Posted 2025-10-23 11:59 AM (#641775 - in reply to #111659)
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Lancer Mike
Posted 2025-10-23 10:41 PM (#641783 - in reply to #641775)
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I've seen this before!  No doubt it was the west Texas buckin' steel tipped snake sunning himself on the package tray.  Something must have startled it and kapow-pow!  Now you gotta find a east Texas razor-tooth Mongoose to get rid of that thing!

I had never noticed those ghost stripes on the roof until now! 

 



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Posted 2025-10-23 11:25 PM (#641785 - in reply to #111659)
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ToMopar
Posted 2025-10-28 4:28 AM (#641815 - in reply to #111659)
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