Relief

Well, it took a day longer than planned, but more importantly an extra pair of hands, to get the rear window installed. But it's done! Our friend Ray came over for a few hours this evening, and with his help we got this bane of Porsche restorers taken care of with surprisingly little drama.

The rubber and aluminum trim had stayed attached through a couple unattended days. That was a good start. We began tonight by inserting the well lubricated string in the body flange channel. We wore out nearly all of our fingers getting the string inserted all the way around this very tight space. We used two short strings meeting in the middle, top and bottom, with a little overlap.

Then we carefully carried the window over to the car. As we approached Katie was soaping up the body flange, making sure there would be minimal resistance of the rubber on the metal. We seated the front lower corners, and then just basically had to apply four (occasionally five) hands of pressure to the edge of the window as I pulled the string from inside, pulling the inner rubber edge over the metal flange. We only had one minor problem, where the string pulled past the rubber without pulling it over, but were able to get that with a neat little hook that Ray fashioned from a nail. Other than that it was relatively painless.

This car is now unbelieveably nearly whole! These were some very well-enjoyed, and well-deserved beers.