1948 Cadillac Assistance Needed....

[Coupe Deville]

Hello everyone. This is not my usual era of knowledge with Cadillac's but my friend has a 1948 convetible that he has repainted and is putting it back together. We have a question about the weatherstripping. Both rear quarter windows have those fuzzie strips that run along the inside of the trim on the outside of the glass so that there is no visible gap in between the glass and the pice of trim. The front two windows have no fuzzie strip or weather stripping. There is about a half inch gap between the outside of the glass and the chrome trim on the outside of the door. This is the way it was when he got the car. It really doesn't look right with this gap. What is supossed to be there? A rubber pice? Where does it attach? Or is there supossed to be nothing? I apologize for not having pictures. I hope I explained this well. Thank you for any information you can provide.

-Gavin

[Steve Passmore]

We have been disusing this on another thread here recently, a window sweeper is usually attached to the trim between it and the glass, this could be rubber or fuzzy. Convertibles are probably different than hardtops.  I'm not familiar with 48 but on my 41 the factory stapled them on. other years were clips or screws or staples or all of the above.
Check out 'Steele Rubber' catalog for that year they show a rubber strip with a chrome beaded edge part number  70-0536-58

[johnwalker]

My 49 convert has nothing there. The chrome window frame would interfere if there was.

[Bill Ingler #7799]

Gavin: I am not that familiar with a 48 but it should not be that much difference than the 47. The convert chrome frame on the door window glass adds width to the door run channel in the end of the door, that causes the larger gap between the door window glass and the top of the door chrome garnish moldings. A window fuzzie attached to either the interior or exterior garnish moldings on top of the door would serve no purpose.   Bill

[Caddy Wizard]

I am working on a 49 convertible right now.  It appears that there is not supposed to be any weatherstrip or fuzzy between the glass and polished stainless steel trim molding on the outside of the door.  There IS a fuzzy strip on the inside of the glass, mounted to sheet metal brackets that get screwed to the top of the inside part of the door.  Here is a picture of those sheet metal brackets.  I am having to make some of these (a couple of these are a bit too rusty for my satisfaction), and might make extras, if folks would be interested.

[Jeff Maltby 4194]

I couldn't imagine it without the fuzzy strip myself, so I asked Herman D. to reply.

Here's the chrome strip with fuzzy attached on my 52 buick sedan drivers door.

[harry s]

There are no fuzzies or sweeps on either side of the glass. There are adjustable rollers and guides that hold the glass in place. Here is a picture showing the placement. I also checked the window garnish and they are plain with no evidence of any sweeps having been on them.    Harry
PS I have tried several times to post the picture but no luck. I'll try again later.

[Caddy Wizard]

I don't know about the 48 convertible, but on a 49 convertible there definitely are sweeps (fuzzies) on the inside of the glass.  The brackets shown in the picture I posted last week are for the sole purpose of bearing the sweeps and holding them against the inside of the glass.  Sweeps are held to the brackets with staples, brackets held to the tops of the insides of the doors with short #8 sheet metal screws...

[harry s]

 I tried the picture again and it still won't post. I'm not sure what the problem is. Art after looking at your pictures and my '48 they seem to be different. I don't have the strip that a sweep would attach to on the inside window opening. There is a bracket with a verticle roller on the inside and the outside in the middle of the opening that presses on the glass and then the two horizontial rollers, one at the front and one at the rear. Once the chrome trim piece is attached to the outer door top and the window garnish moulding is in place there is a gap that is filled by the window frame when it is down as Bill mentioned. Given the set up on the '48 I would say the '49 is an upgrade.   Harry

[Caddy Wizard]

Here are pictures of the top of a 49 convertible door with the strips omitted.  You can see the various holes in the top of the inside of the door.  If your doors don't have these holes, the car probably didn't have the strips...

[harry s]

Mine doesn't have the holes only the glass guides I mentioned. Here goes with picture again.   Harry   Picture still won't post. I did one a week ago and it worked. Don't know what the problem is. Oh well.

[Coupe Deville]

Hello again everyone. Thank you all very much for responding, it is greatly appreciated. As I said before I am not very knowledgeable in this era of Cadillac but would it be safe to say that 48' 6267 convertibles did not have these window fuzzies but people are adding them? How does that sound? Just want to be able to give a solid conclusion to my friend.

-Gavin

[harry s]

I think that would be a good conclusion. The addition of those strips could also have been a mid year improvement sometime during the '48 run. It also seems like a reasonable addition as far as fit and sound control go.    Harry

[Caddy Wizard]

I just studied the 1948 body book last night and didn't see any photos showing the strips for 48.