Jay, I'd bet on what you have being great. Unless the car was outside in LV for 20 years. The stainless trim preserves the rubber very well here in Northern Ca. and most other places. The gasket on that car is a superior, ingenious design that leds itself to being reused. So much so that you can open it yourself with a butter knife and see. Feeling even the least bit adventurous? Follow along: Take the stainless trim off. Mostly screws and clips. Look on the A pillar section of the gasket for what appear to be tiny ribs or a seam. On any other rubber, this would be the mold seam, and your eye will tell you that it can't be anything but. Disregard what you think you see. On this thing, it's where two parts of rubber actually touch and are squeezed together. Gently dig/probe your butter knife into the seam and pry it apart. You will have the outside section fold out and back. Work all the way around the edge and get it open. It's not exactly a zip-loc bag device, but that's the closest analogy I can think of. When you have that lip up and out of the way, you have then opened a path to allow the inner lip to fold up 90 degrees, and somewhat under the outer lip so that it occupies the space formerly filled by the outer lip. You can do this with your fingers after a certain point, most likely, and the butter knife if not. Seriously, if you're under 95 years old and your hands work, you're in. Sneak the butter knife out the back door when she's not looking - better to get forgiveness on this one. Fold the inner gasket up and the edge of the glass will be visible all the way around. Put a moving blanket on the hood. Maybe remove the wipers? (cant remember). Sit in the car on the front seat with your butt on the front edge of the seat. Take your shoes off. Use your stocking feet to gently push (not kick!) the glass out all the way around. The thing will pop out, and if you screw up and crack it further, well, you're replacing it, so..... Rotate the glass on its bottom edge onto the moving blanket and carry away. I used a hammer to knock it down so that it would fit in the recycle can that we have, and the garbage man took it away and I didn't even fill up the regular can with it. This is something that you CAN do with 1-2 buddies. Glass installation was a black art to me until Jeff Ingraham showed me this. So stupidly easy! I can find a windscreen gasket if you need one, but I'm almost certain that what you have is re-workable. Please don't write back to say that the glass place used a blade on the rubber and that it's a goner! That would be a shame. You can get gasket sealing material with a casual search. Try the local glass co? Installing is pretty much the same thing - clean the channel with solvent, put in some sealant, fold down the inner lip. fold down the outer lip with your hand and use a rubber mallet to clench the thing shut, and you're done. -K --- JAY D'ANGELO <cadij@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've decied to replace the windshield on my > convertible. Got a great price today of $500 +$100 > shipping to Las Vegas.Problem is, I can't find the > rubber windshield channel molding. Steele doesn't > have it and neither does the other sources I > contacted. My windshield dealer is also making > calls, but they can't find one either.Anyone have > any leads? I'm sure that the old one will fall > apart when it is removed - doesn't do any good to > get a windshield if I can't use it.HELP!Jay > D'Angelo64 Iml CvtLas Vegas > _________________________________________________________________ > Get into the holiday spirit, chat with Santa on > Messenger. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/santabot/default.aspx?locale=en-us Kenyon Wills __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm