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Why do all, or at least most, photos of restored trucks show that the front windshield rubber gasket is unpainted.? I have a unrestored Gmc and the front and rear window gaskets are all covered with body color paint. This makes sense because it was a production line paint job and not an individual restoration. By the way this is original paint not a repaint. If you are restoring to original should the gasket be painted or not, forgetting which looks better? comments please. doug

You might want to look under therubber to see if the color is the same as the body, or if it is different. It doesn't sound right to me, Mine are regular rubber black and original also.

I've never seen any painted rubber from the factory, "production line" paint jobs were/are done before final assembly, there's no glass in place when pieces are being painted [why waste time/labor/money masking things off?] .... if yer talkin the 41 in yer profile, the windshield frame would have been painted before the glass was installed, if your rubber [frame to cab or between glass and frame] is painted, a glass shop did it or a PO did it to try to keep the rubber from deteriorating

Bill

I agree with all who responded. The rubber windshield gasket should be unpainted. I just replaced the glass in my 1946 big bolt. The rubber gasket for the front windshield can be bought from Jim Carter. It'not that hard to replace the old with new.

To all who responded to my question thanks. I did pull the window, front ,today on the 41 GMC and the result was a black widow. The original colors are red cab black fenders. The frames\'s upper hing brackets are red. Fairly sure this is original because the broken glass on the passenger side pretty well rusted out the inside channel. Just something else to take care of. By the way the front window regulator works like a champ, got lucky there . doug

Couple pics to illustrate what others have said:

Factory photo.

The frame is body color in the inside too, because it was painted before glass was fitted and assembly. Click.

Doug you are right about the color of the window frames. On a GMC, they were black. My windshield frame and both my door glass frames came black from the factory.