[Goat & Chicken Farmer]

I will take my turn to chime in on this subject. We,(dad and I) are doing his 71 GTO and this being the first ground up restoration for us, we are learning a lot of things the hard way, like the rear quarter window seals. The first set we got didn’t fit well at all in the radius area so after calling and talking to the supplier, they "found" a set that fit the radius of a replacement quarter real well, so we sent the first ones back and waited for the next set. The next set arrived and the fit was better but still not right and the holes didn’t match up. It took ten hours of massaging one side to get it to look right and about 4 hours on the other side. We admired our work for about two weekends while we prepped the rear windows for installation. Once the rear quarter windows were installed and adjusted properly, there is about a 1/16 inch gap between the window and the seal at the radius. WTF...after comparing the new part with the original, we can see that the rubber that contacts the window is not as wide as the original, if it were there would be no issue. Now dad wants to try to find NOS or some that are closer to being correct, which takes way more time than actually installing them and finding NOS is probably imposable. Another lesson learned is, if you are going to replace the springs in one bucket seat, you better replace them in the other seat as well or they wont look the same when you put the new foam and seat covers on. Oh, and don’t pull too hard at the seams, even the legendary covers' seams tear. $75 for repair!