"Something in the Orange"
One (maybe the most significant) drawback to putting miles on your classic- Rock chips and bulls eyes. That one is on one of my new parking lights! The paint up there looks like the surface of the moon and I keep "touching up" the spots. Well in late 2017 I got a pretty good rock to the windscreen and thought replacing it would kill two birds. (since it was leaking too) What a fiasco. A Lufkin windshield shop didn't want anything to do with my old car. They recomended these two guys that would come to one's home to do it... Anyway the guys put a new windshield in but it leaked worse than before. I ended up buying a new gasket and trying it myself. I used a little silicone around the bottom corners and it came out pretty good. Handling the glass was hair raising but I hated putting the chrome back on the most.
One (maybe the most significant) drawback to putting miles on your classic- Rock chips and bulls eyes. That one is on one of my new parking lights! The paint up there looks like the surface of the moon and I keep "touching up" the spots. Well in late 2017 I got a pretty good rock to the windscreen and thought replacing it would kill two birds. (since it was leaking too) What a fiasco. A Lufkin windshield shop didn't want anything to do with my old car. They recomended these two guys that would come to one's home to do it... Anyway the guys put a new windshield in but it leaked worse than before. I ended up buying a new gasket and trying it myself. I used a little silicone around the bottom corners and it came out pretty good. Handling the glass was hair raising but I hated putting the chrome back on the most.