Vent window frame attachment

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Jim Kueneman

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Is this OEM? Did they use a machine allen screw and a sheet metal screw in the front edge of the vent frame to door attachment? Mine are the same on both sides.... '63 Dart ragtop.

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Nope, no allen headed screws that I have ever seen before. The cross head or philips screw is defiantly factory. But what is weird is it is on both sides.
 
Those are correct .
The Allen head screw holds the vertical part of the frame and is accessed thru the little hole on your upper door . The one with the tiny plastic plug .
The sheet metal screw holds the wing window pivot .
 
Those are correct .
The Allen head screw holds the vertical part of the frame and is accessed thru the little hole on your upper door . The one with the tiny plastic plug .
The sheet metal screw holds the wing window pivot .

not on at least this ‘63. The upper door does not have that little hole and plug. Those large bolt go in the hole where the Dart 270 badging goes. Look at the first picture carefully. These are in the front edge of the door typically covered by the weatherstrip that seals the vent frame to the windshield frame.
 
I did not consider that early as would be different . Those look like the right fasteners for later cars .
 
My 65 GT has two allen head bolts in those locations. They don't appear to be the originals as this was a 'restored' car, but they are both allen head.
 
My 65 GT has two allen head bolts in those locations. They don't appear to be the originals as this was a 'restored' car, but they are both allen head.

This one has had a "restoration" sometime in the '80s or '90s too.... That is why I am asking.
 
Is this OEM? Did they use a machine allen screw and a sheet metal screw in the front edge of the vent frame to door attachment? Mine are the same on both sides.... '63 Dart ragtop.

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both my 66's and both my 65's were screw (on top)and allen head (on bottom). so it might be stock but I'm not sure. oops reverse that. Allen on bottom and screw on top... sorry brain fart.
 
both my 66's and both my 65's were screw (on top)and allen head (on bottom). so it might be stock but I'm not sure. oops reverse that. Allen on bottom and screw on top... sorry brain fart.

Um, Kurt is that a double brain fart? I think you said the same thing twice.....
 
Um, Kurt is that a double brain fart? I think you said the same thing twice.....

yup another brain fart..... not my day.
probably but I looked at my original pic's and had the danged thing upside down. the socked head was on top and I had been out in the heat and humidity wayyyyyy too long trying to get the Trim pieces formed up to my satisfaction.
 
Well my 66 has allen on both locations....Original.......
 
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