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Back glass on a ?71 SportsRoof can be tricky. It tends to do two things extremely well: One is leak and the other is bleach out the back seat and the package tray. Too often, we?ve seen these ?skylights? with cracked weatherstrips that lead to warped package trays or rotted floors in the trunk.

Now we?re not saying the Ford install will work any better than any other install, but there?s a difference, and in some respects, it?s a major one. If you look at your Ford assembly manuals, you?ll find that they used closed-cell foam on the metal edge of the back-glass opening. Ford even gives dimensions and placement for the foam. The foam, when used in our install, tightens up the weatherstrip and hopefully makes for a better seal. This process was most likely used on other SportsRoof and fastback models as well.

For our weatherstrip, we turned to our good friends at California Mustang. Some of our other products, such as the closed-cell foam, was purchased at the local hardware store. Note, you may have problems getting the exact width and height foam, but something approximate can be adjusted to work quite well.

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'69-'73 Mustangs Use Glue-In Windshields, And We Install One In Our '72 Mach 1 Lazarus Project

From the May, 2000 issue of Mustang Monthly
By Jeff Ford, Mark Houlahan
Photography by Jeff Ford, Mark Houlahan
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We decided to do a site install on the windshield at the Silver Springs Show. Wow, talk about pressure.

When it comes to glass, we all get a bit skittish. After all, the stuff is expensive, and we really don't want to break it, let alone buy it twice. Most of the time, we want to let the pros do it. But on glue-in windshields, that's-well-foolish. Of all the glass to be installed in your vintage Mustang, it is probably the easiest and least stressful-especially when we give you some pro tips on how to make that happen.

OEM Glass put together a windshield for us that is a Carlite-stamped and date-coded piece. Of course, when we ordered it, we ran into our first problem-the windshield is available only in tint. That's fine for most of the Mustang faithful with '69-'73 cars, but our Lazarus Project falls soundly into the realm of "Gee, I never saw one of them before." This is because our Mach 1 is a clear glass car, and did not use a tinted windshield. After a nationwide search by OEM and our staff, we gave up and went with tint. We guess that this is the price you pay for unusual options.

We will also cover how to assemble the cowl, and how to get the windshield wipers to sit below the hood on your '71-'73. So follow along, and see just how easy it is to see clearly now.

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