Well we all like a good guessing game problem is I cant provide the answer can you good people of BRM?!! its new old stock with a stainless steel divider where it meets the drop glass in the door, the opening handle is pretty distinctive so may offer some clues
Looks like a rear quarter light? If these are NOS they've been carefully stored in the spud patch.
For a 50 year old part its good, the stainless has some sort of protective coating, if I wanted money for it I might have cleaned it up but the next lucky owner can spend time polishing if I can work out fitment!
Looks like a rear quarter light? If these are NOS they've been carefully stored in the spud patch.
For a 50 year old part its good, the stainless has some sort of protective coating, if I wanted money for it I might have cleaned it up but the next lucky owner can spend time polishing if I can work out fitment!
No offence intended! I'm sure they'll be worth their weight in gold to someone with that car. ?What car? If you know they're 50 years old do you know what they're off? Do you see what I'm on about with the rear fitment? The way they're hinged if they were front quarter lights they'd be opening into the full force of the wind and scooping it into the car, (which wouldn't be the 'draftless ventilation' that quarter lights are synonymous with).
No offence taken, a lot of models did away with opening quarter lights at the end of the 60s so its all guess work, I can see now what your saying about the way it opens, a bit more googling required!
No offence taken, a lot of models did away with opening quarter lights at the end of the 60s so its all guess work, I can see now what your saying about the way it opens, a bit more googling required!
I may well be wrong but it's got a BMC vibe to me, I just can't find any model with a perfect match on angles.
No offence taken, a lot of models did away with opening quarter lights at the end of the 60s so its all guess work, I can see now what your saying about the way it opens, a bit more googling required!
I may well be wrong but it's got a BMC vibe to me, I just can't find any model with a perfect match on angles.
I had a look,to no,avail. My gut feeling is either French or Italian.....It could just be indigestion though🤣🤣
Well we all like a good guessing game problem is I cant provide the answer can you good people of BRM?!! its new old stock with a stainless steel divider where it meets the drop glass in the door, the opening handle is pretty distinctive so may offer some clues
How did they come into your possession? Maybe knowing where they came from might help,ie an old boy down the road who had predominantly American cars etc 😊
Well we all like a good guessing game problem is I cant provide the answer can you good people of BRM?!! its new old stock with a stainless steel divider where it meets the drop glass in the door, the opening handle is pretty distinctive so may offer some clues
How did they come into your possession? Maybe knowing where they came from might help,ie an old boy down the road who had predominantly American cars etc 😊
It came in an artic load of parts mainly Vauxhall but there was also some VW/Alfa Romeo/BMC, many of the old Vauxhall dealers were other brands before Vauxhall
I had a look,to no,avail. My gut feeling is either French or Italian.....It could just be indigestion though🤣🤣
Likewise & I see the point about orientation but the profile still looks much more front than rear (as they say!)
To explain; This is the inside of the quarter light, we know that since it would be impractical to have the catch on the outside of the car. You can see that if the catch was released the glass could not be pulled inwards since the rubber seal would prevent that, ergo it has to be pushed outwards. There's a horizontal aspect, a vertical aspect and a sloping edge joining the two. The sloping edge will generally be aligned to the door edge which in turn is aligned to the pillar supporting the front screen or rear screen. Most (opening) front quarter light windows have a centre pivot, (or roughly centred), the sloping edge of the window in front of the pivot moves inwards as vertical edge moves outwards, e.g.
The mystery window has a pivot / hinge on the vertical edge, you can see part of it protruding, (it might have been operated by a wheel originally to open or close the quarterlight, such as is shown on the P6 door above). If you look at moglite's photo of a beautiful Mk X you can see that rear quarterlight is hinged along the vertical edge / upright. Imagine that layout was on the front door with the quarter light opening outwards but facing the oncoming rush of air, it would act as an air scoop funnelling a gale into the car until you got up enough speed for the force of the wind to wrench the window off. It makes much more sense to me that it's a rear quarter light. If there's a possibility that it's off a Yank tank that'll involve a whole lot more Googling!