If you have a 1955 2nd Series Shop Manual, check out pages 1-3 thru 1-5 (you can see them
HERE if you don't have one handy. You can see the glass and weatherstrip profile in Fig 2 on page 1-3. The last part of installation step #5 on Page 1-5 says "...seat the lip of the rubber channel over the flange..." so I think it would extend over the flange and into the interior area. Clear as mud?