Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/6/24 8:34:35

I didn't make it to the upholsterer's today, he was too busy, so it will happen in a day or so. Meanwhile, something that happened a while ago . . . .

My car came in parts as I mentioned before, and I didn't realize that the front door glasses and lifter channels were missing until it came time to start work on them. I got a car in pieces with many boxes of parts everywhere. I had seen some windows in a box but I never knew they were for 4-door cars, not my Club Sedan. There is no-one in Oz with a 51 Club Sedan so no 2465 to get a pattern for the window glasses. So I ordered from Kanter.

Long story, but when my precious glasses arrived they had taken a hit on one edge, and were both broken. Very disappointed at the packaging done by Kanters' suppliers of the glasses (whoever they are), so I wrote Kanter to say that if I was them, I'd wrap the glasses much better, maybe placing some light board or foam around them as well as cardboard. (After all, they're being shipped halfway around the world). They came wrapped in bubblewrap with a couple of layers of ordinary cardboard around them which is very minimal IMO. Kanter kept saying they never had problems with broken glass, and they were satisfied with the wrapping. I said it was difficult for me to agree after I had received both glasses broken! Anyway, I got nowhere fast. Pity that was the case.

At least I now had the broken glasses to be used as a pattern. So I made a plywood template and had two new ones made locally for a lot less money. They're toughened glass, not laminated, which is also pleasing. Over the years the laminated glass can get discoloured around the edges which is evident in some that I have here.

Windows are fitted now but more about windows in another post.