'68 Nova Quarter window channels - chrome bead or black?

[DougsL78]

Hi All,

Need to get a set of quarter window channels, guides, hardware for my '68 Nova L78 resto. The car has none of that when I bought it.

There are 2 flavors of this part available from several vendors - with chrome bead and without the chrome (all black). How do I determine what is correct for my car? The car originally has no window chrome on the exterior - but I don't think the chrome/no chrome bead on the channels is tied to that trim option...

This is the next adventure - deciding which vendor has the most correct parts for functional quarter windows - there are old threads that that reproduction guides sucked - but hoping that in the last 10 years the product(s) are better than they were back then.

Thanks in advance for your collective help.

[parkbrau]

Originally Posted by DougsL78

Hi All,

Need to get a set of quarter window channels, guides, hardware for my '68 Nova L78 resto. The car has none of that when I bought it.

There are 2 flavors of this part available from several vendors - with chrome bead and without the chrome (all black). How do I determine what is correct for my car? The car originally has no window chrome on the exterior - but I don't think the chrome/no chrome bead on the channels is tied to that trim option...

This is the next adventure - deciding which vendor has the most correct parts for functional quarter windows - there are old threads that that reproduction guides sucked - but hoping that in the last 10 years the product(s) are better than they were back then.

Thanks in advance for your collective help.

I have these and they work. https://www.ss396.com/nova/JTW-X2301-K.html But I came to the conclusion that I'll prolly never roll the rear window down.



Ask these folks https://www.ss396.com/nova/JTW-X2301-K.html or these https://nnnova.com/ if they can restore yours.

[Igosplut]

Yes, none of my 70 Novas ever had rear windows that would roll down without problems, even when the cars were only a few years old. You learn to just never use them.

[DougsL78]

Thanks all - I agree - the quarter windows on any of my novas have never been perfectly functional... and dont expect these to be the silver bullet.

I was more curious on why they make a chrome bead and black bead version - there must be an option ordered on a Nova hat dictates one or the other - I just cant seem to find out the details.

Not a showstopper - either will work