Door vent windows?

[laughinlark]

Will the door vent window assembly from a 66 fit a 63. They look similar. I don't have them out to compare yet.

Thanks,
Gordon

[Dwain G.]

Depends on the body. The '63 glass and/or assembly that fits 2 and 4 door sedans and wagons will only fit wagons from '64-'66. At least that's according to the body book.


Dwain G.

[Dick Steinkamp]

Stude "chopped the top" of the Lark types in '64 (except wagons and convertibles).



Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA

[laughinlark]

Thanks for the replies. I have a 4Dr 66 Commander parts car that I haven't touched yet. I was hoping to use the drivers vent window in my 63 Lark 2Dr. The window in the 63 has a broken pivot shaft at the bottom. I think the previous owner used to close the door by pulling on the window latch. It fell off about a year ago.

Gordon

[Skip Lackie]

I do not have access to my 65-66 parts book, but I am assuming that the 66 is the same as 64. If that is the case, then they will not interchange. The 59-64 parts book shows different part numbers for 63 and 64 Y, F, and P model vent windows. The 63 vent window appears to be a single-year design.

Skip Lackie
Washington DC

[laughinlark]

Thanks again, I'll have to look around here. I'm pretty sure that I have some 63 vent windows, but I think that the shafts are broken on them also. I never looked close enough to see that they chopped the tops for the 64's. They are about an inch lower. Go figure.

Gordon

[JGK 940]

quote:Originally posted by laughinlark

I never looked close enough to see that they chopped the tops for the 64's. They are about an inch lower. Go figure.

Gordon

Sounds to me like another instance of Brook Stevens Budget Styling Genius.

It was all about Longer! Wider! Lower! in the early '60s, and the '64 was advertised as "Styled for public acceptance" IIRC. Visually, the forward-canted front fenders and the points on the taillight housings helped take care of the first and the appearance of the second came from the full-width grille and sort-of-rectangular taillights in a horizontal accent band, so I'd always just sort of assumed they only *looked* lower too because of the newly-sculpted roof. Never thought to do an actual comparison.

D'oh!

After more than 40 years I finally know why the '64 convertibles look so much taller to me than the hardtops (wipes egg off face).



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