The Virginia Muscle Car

Bob's 76 Vette of today


(Rear Window Replacement)

The 76 had a scratched up rear window, plus the defrost circuit look worse for he wear. So I took on this little project and replaced the original real glass with a new, non-defrost glass. I am really not going to park the car outside so defrost feature was not needed.

Some of the supplies used to install new rear glass can be seen in the above photo. Use a couple of cheap glass holders to help steady the glass. Install the glass myself. The interior real glass trim fell apart; a replacement was installed. Also, recommended was a special glass cleaner. When cleaning out old gasket material it is recommended that the exterior paint be protected with paint tape(the blue tape).


The next thing was to remove the old glass. In order to get at the rear glass from the inside, had to remove some interior panels. A piece of wire threaded through the old gasket material from the exterior to the interior can be used to cut the gasket and free the window. Did not use a wire myself, but instead I gently pulled at the old glass until it was free. Then cleaned off the old gasket material that remained on the body. Next step was to install a new gasket ... took me several tries to learn how to get it decent looking. In the above photo, the new gasket material has already been installed.

Finished with a clean, clear, shinny rear glass installion, which does not leak a drop of water. The WEB has several step-by-step late C4 rear window installion instructions. For example, Corvette Magazine has a great set of instructions at: Corvette Magazine WEBpage ~Bob



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