Barn find Valiant

I can't thank you enough for this info

Y'welcome!

Everything works except the heater and the core is good but some valve is leaking.

Heater valve info here.

It does have a trim ring embedded in the rubber around the windshield and backglass but the "chrome" has weathered off the plastic.

Right, the super-early-build cars got actual hard stainless mouldings around the windshield and backglass. Shortly into production they changed to a mylar-faced plastic lockstrip used on all A-bodies thru '66. Original material not available, but there's a Chev/GMC truck lockstrip that looks reasonably close and works well in new gaskets. It will not quite fit (fractionally too small) in old gaskets.