Birdcage???
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Rust is the usual problem and is most likely to occur in the lower corners of the windshield frame and the verticle pieces below them, although it can occur anywhere. If by "problematic points" you mean are there any inherently weak points, I've never heard of any.
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As mentioned, the lower windshield area, and remove the kick panel to look for rusted out support frame as noted in this diagram.
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not as yet that I know of. As for how hard on a scale of 1-10 1 being the easiset I would rate it a about 15. I never done it and I would never would want too. also the first pic is a bird cage from a 63-67 coupe
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Holy cow! 
That is the worst windshield frame rot I have ever seen....and I live in Minnesota, road salt capital of the USA. There has to be more to that story than the ordinary rust issues.
Derby...you can buy certain patch sections of the windshield frame from Zip, but as far as I know no one sells a complete birdcage. Unless the car is an L-88 or something, it really wouldn't be worth the labor to assemble a car around a new cage anyway. It's basically like hand building a new (old) Vette body tub.
That is the worst windshield frame rot I have ever seen....and I live in Minnesota, road salt capital of the USA. There has to be more to that story than the ordinary rust issues.
Derby...you can buy certain patch sections of the windshield frame from Zip, but as far as I know no one sells a complete birdcage. Unless the car is an L-88 or something, it really wouldn't be worth the labor to assemble a car around a new cage anyway. It's basically like hand building a new (old) Vette body tub.
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Are they as rusted as the windshield frame shown above? You miight try cleaning them up first to make sure it's not completely rotted out.
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When inspecting a car, where exactly are we looking? From inside remove the kickpanels and look for rust. Around the windshield frame is easy enough...anywhere else? From underneath? Underhood along the firewall? The drawings are great I just gotta apply them to the assembled product.
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When inspecting a car, where exactly are we looking? From inside remove the kickpanels and look for rust. Around the windshield frame is easy enough...anywhere else? From underneath? Underhood along the firewall? The drawings are great I just gotta apply them to the assembled product.
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ens1967: Look at this thread.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ighlight=avner
If you want you can fix everything.
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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ighlight=avner
If you want you can fix everything.
Avner
