Right you are. You *can* do without that strip, but the windows are happier with the crappy plasti-chrome nearby.

G. Matthew Bulley
Director
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree

-----Original Message-----
From:   Brian Doss [SMTP:BDOSS24046@AOL.COM]
Sent:   Thursday, October 07, 1999 12:10 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: Rust around window openings

my '88 has a sort of hard plastic insert, semi-chromy looking, which is
inserted into the outer center of the rubber gasket (at least on the f & b
windshield). I've always assumed that to remove the glass, you would first
remove this piece, which would make the gasket a lot less stiff. Comments?