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| Laryn Christley (Barn_owl)
Registered Member Username: Barn_owl Post Number: 137 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 70.110.13.203  Rating: N/A |
I like the classic look and I think trying to update an old coach with square caps looks odd and unflattering with some rare exceptions. I am doing all I can within reason to preserve my rear glass, but there will probably come a day when it will have to go. My father has something that I haven't seen talked about anywhere since I have been on the “boards”. He has a fiberglass mold that makes rear caps for the 4106. The caps look like the original rear with glass and rubber, unlike the square R&M ones. I guess whoever made it did it off the back of a good 4106. I have no idea how much it would cost to have someone shoot some fiberglass and make a cap from it. Does anyone have an idea of how much it might run and what is involved? Also, it seems that the rear rubber is the most difficult piece to acquire. Can one be fabricated or pieced together from gasket material that is bought by the foot? How do some of the 4106s I see have such nice rubber in them? | ||
| Douglas Wotring (Tekebird)
Registered Member Username: Tekebird Post Number: 316 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 71.59.75.212 Rating: N/A |
laryn, easy to cut down a buffalo rear glass rubber..which I have in stock. I also have a fiberglass guy who can lay up the cap for you | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 199 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 76.4.151.87 Rating: N/A |
barn owl" I had a 4106 and had taken it to Carl Higginbothem in and on Smith Mountain Lake outside of Roanoke,Va and he took a mold of my rear window so he could make a fiberglass mold to replace the glass and I do not know his number or if he is even alive, maybe another nut can help us out, I would like to find out myself. He used to go by the name of Cape Carol marina and coach builder, Gomer | ||
| Laryn Christley (Barn_owl)
Registered Member Username: Barn_owl Post Number: 160 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 70.110.13.203 Rating: N/A |
Gomer, I asked my father where he got his mold and he said it came from somewhere in Illinois. My father talked with Carl about ten years ago and said that he wasn’t in the best of health then, and doesn’t know if he is even still alive. I will ask around. Laryn | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 203 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 76.4.151.87 Rating: N/A |
Barn Owl; Thanks for that info. I understand that Carl was working on his big yacht and something happened and he fell and crashed on the concrete and fractured his skull among other things and he recovered but was limited in doing things and that was the last I heard. Gomer |