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[dave1293gt]

Holly are the frames removable?

[HollyBaby]

Frames are removable but it's a case of what to put in there? Someone linked some fibreglass panels on my Fbook but I think we want to keep away from fibreglass... as nice as it can be.. kinda hate the stuff haha!

[asahartz]

I'm wondering if Volvo 240 estate windows can be adapted? Will have to measure up.

[dave1293gt]

Frames are removable but it's a case of what to put in there? Someone linked some fibreglass panels on my Fbook but I think we want to keep away from fibreglass... as nice as it can be.. kinda hate the stuff haha!

If the frame is larger than the hole it leaves behind then it looks like you could fit perspex like the one in the pics asahartz just posted of the black one. If you zoom in on the pics it looks like they ar bolted straightt through the quarter, (now this is where i am unsure) you maybe able to do the same but use the frame to hold the perspex in place instead of the bolts.
Not really sure that makes sense. :)

[dave1293gt]

I'm wondering if Volvo 240 estate windows can be adapted? Will have to measure up.

Would they not be toughened glass in the volvo making them awkward if not impossible to cut down ?

[asahartz]

What I'm worried about is that the frames may have rusted badly behind, and I won't know until I get it out. The car has been stood in our back garden for some 10 years now, not too kind to the bodywork is it? Also not happy about using perspex, it scratches too easily and gets brittle in cold weather.

[asahartz]

I'm wondering if Volvo 240 estate windows can be adapted? Will have to measure up.

Would they not be toughened glass in the volvo making them awkward if not impossible to cut down ?

I'll have to find out. I used to have one, but there's not many about these days.

[asahartz]

Here's another car with them fitted :http://www.flickr.co...N02/6224012219/ (it was also in the current BMC mag, the page before my Skye!)

This car was car of the show at Bingley Hall, the owner is Dr Stuart Chance. Wonder if anyone has contact info for him to see how he did it? Still uses original frames though.

[edoddy]

One thing i will say, when you take the frames off do not lose the clips along the top, they are not available anwhere as far as i could find (I was looking for 4 months before i made some using a picture to work from!!!) When i took them off they got misplaced, and i think binned!!

[asahartz]

One thing i will say, when you take the frames off do not lose the clips along the top, they are not available anwhere as far as i could find (I was looking for 4 months before i made some using a picture to work from!!!) When i took them off they got misplaced, and i think binned!!

I'll not lose anything, trust me, I've worked on lots of Minis and I work in a clean garage. I bag up and label all parts as I remove them. I've a member of the Clubman Estate Register so I've some support there too.

[Mini Manannán]

A couple pics of an estate with one piece side windows from my collection of clubby estate pics.

 

I know, it's an old,old thread.  Tupers, have you got anymore pics of estates with one-piece rear windows?  I have an estate with leaky windows and I'm trying to figure out a solution.  

[Turbo Nick]

I helped build that beige estate, the rear windows took some head scratching but weren't actually that bad.

 

They're made from 4mm polycarb. We got some U shaped channel and fixed it to the bodywork around 3 of the sides if I remember right, then the bottom piece went in with the window and a dab of sealant and probably a spacer behind it. The original outer frames bolted back on to sandwich them in place.

[Turbo Nick]

 

 

[Vipernoir]

The tidiest install of a single piece rear window i've seen was on the Purple Monster, an estate I bought off a club member and ended up in the States somewhere.
Basically the rear windows were made of the glass and a suitably sized piece of spacer-bar from a double glazed window.  By sticking the spacer-bar on the back of the glass, the gap where the double window channel sits was bridged and the glass sealed beautifully.