Rear Quarter Glass Replacement

[<lemoine@domain.elided>]

Subject:     Rear Quarter Glass Replacement
Sent:        3/1/98 2:41 PM
To:          ihc-digest, digest.net

Hello Harvesters,

Had some vandal break my rear quarter window last night, and 
am looking for help in what to do to replace it. The fixed pane 
in the sliding window unit was broken. Have several questions 
about getting this done right:

1) Is it possible to replace just the fixed pane on this unit, 
without disturbing the 22 year old metal frame and gasket?

2) If not, I'm pretty sure I can come up Junk Yard, etc. with 
a whole new unit. Not sure how easily it can go in given the age 
of the current gasket, and I'm not sure of they are still available. 
Are they Available? If not, Will a good glass shop know how to 
salvage the one that's in there? (From what is visible, it seems 
like it is in pretty good shape.)

3) Can anyone recommend a shop in the SF Bay Area (Preferably 
South Bay) that could do the replacement? I've done windshield 
glass in the past, with dismal results, so I think that this is 
best left to the pros.

4) Anyone on the list have a sliding window unit they'd like 
to get rid of? Name your price, with all of the rain we've had 
lately, I'm a pretty captive market!

I was able to get a good laugh out of this: The police officer 
that came to take my report was quite impressed with the shape 
that my Scout is in, and saw that I had an inordinate amount of 
pain for this seemingly trivial vandalism ('76 w/113K miles and 
VERY well maintained by both myself and the previous owner. Just 
in nice original shape for its age, and he was apparently used 
to seeing Scouts with advanced cancer on the East Coast) So, for 
"Unique Characteristics of Vehicle", he pointed outthat "I'm 
going to go ahead and put "Clean"." Nice guy.

Thanks for any and all help with this problem. I'm hoping you guys 
can put me at ease over my problems with my normally-loved odd-
shaped windows!

Thanks Again,
Paul 

'76 Scout II XLC