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| | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 146 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 146 | Does anyone have suggestions on where to get replacement door glass? I've shopped around online, but I'd like to know if anyone has ordered from an online parts place. I'll need both door windows and both vent windows. Also, I'll need the window gasket/channels too. Thanks for your help! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | My advice is (unless you are a originalist)to go with tinted glass all around. My truck is green so I got the green tinted. If blue I would have gotten gray tint.
I bought mine from LMC and have no regrets.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | However if you are not going to replace all your windows better stay with what you have.
~Jim
| | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,312 | I think you can buy patterns at Jim carter / have a local auto glass shop make for you | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 | I removed my glass, took off the frame, and went to my local glass shop. (I think it is Binswanger affliated.) They used the old ones as a pattern, and cut me new ones to match, sides and vents. I think the sides were maybe 30 bucks, no more. Vents might have been $10. They matched the original thickness, so I didn't have to worry about an online supplier going cheap on me with slightly thinner glass. It was a one day job.
I recommend going local. You'll save freight, employ your neighbors, and probably save money...all while establishing a business relationship for if you need them for your front and back.
As a bonus, they gave me a cool installation tool, a plastic tongue depressor-like tool that let me install my back glass very easily. You can also get the setting tape from them, most likely.
Bill | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,847 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,847 | Since most of them are flat glass it is an easy thing to get. I had a glass shop make mine about 10 years ago, he already had the patterns, he cut it , installed the window and the fuzzies all for $20. I am certain I would never get a deal like that again. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,847 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,847 | oddly enough I went to the HAMB and the first entry in the "hamb-o-dex" was exactly this, replacement glass... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | I recommend going local. You'll save freight, employ your neighbors, and probably save money...all while establishing a business relationship for if you need them for your front and back.
As a bonus, they gave me a cool installation tool, a plastic tongue depressor-like tool that let me install my back glass very easily. You can also get the setting tape from them, most likely.
Bill Good advice Bill, I'm one of those 'local glass guys'. You also have the added bonus of templating from the trucks original glass. That way you're guaranteed a good fit. I've also discovered from experience, some of the aftermarket kits are less than accurate.JMO
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 146 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 146 | Thanks for the info everyone! I'm gonna start calling around town and getting some prices. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | i spent two hrs pulling a motor out of a chevy van they were retiring at work and having scrapped...motor was strong and ran like a top...i put it in the local trader and a guy called said he owned a glass shop and wanted it to go in a van he had...well...we struck a deal and he cut me all new greylight tinted glass for my 49 and even set the windows in the frames..not bad for two hrs. of my time.....dave
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | we struck a deal and he cut me all new greylight tinted glass for my 49 and even set the windows in the frames..not bad for two hrs. of my time.....dave Try that with a big corporation.....here's to the 'little guys'! 
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,983 | i spent two hrs pulling a motor out of a chevy van they were retiring at work and having scrapped...motor was strong and ran like a top...i put it in the local trader and a guy called said he owned a glass shop and wanted it to go in a van he had...well...we struck a deal and he cut me all new greylight tinted glass for my 49 and even set the windows in the frames..not bad for two hrs. of my time.....dave Yeah? Well if I had tried that the motor would have dropped on my foot and medical bills would have topped $500. Then the guy wanting the motor would have backed out and I would have been sued by the neighborhood association for littering.
~Jim
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