'41 PU Rear Window

[Anteek29]

My recently acquired '41 truck has a slide-opening rear window. I don't believe these were a factory option when new...or were they?

[ActionYobbo]

A picture is worth a thousand guesses

[Seth Swoboda]

Ford never installed a sliding rear window in a '41 pickup.

[alanwoodieman]

BS Ford did have a sliding rear window in a 41 truck, more prevalent in canada than in us but they were offered. have on in my 41

[alanwoodieman]

try again

[alanwoodieman]

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trying to up load a picture of original sales brochure and it will not load

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by alanwoodieman

BS Ford did have a sliding rear window in a 41 truck, more prevalent in canada than in us but they were offered. have on in my 41

[TJ]

Page 43 of the V-8 Club's '40-'41 pickup book has the full details on the sliding rear window. There were two types and the windows carried through the '47 year.

[Seth Swoboda]

What's the glass bug look like on the sliding glass window?

[Kube]

Originally Posted by alanwoodieman

BS Ford did have a sliding rear window in a 41 truck, more prevalent in canada than in us but they were offered. have on in my 41

One thing they didn't have were those stainless screws and cup washers through the carboard panels.

[rawlir]

FOAmerica 46 & 47 trucks had a factory option, so did FOC, Mercury was stock

[38 coupe]

The Canadian 38 Ford Truck brochure shows a sliding rear window in the accessories section: https://oldcarbrochures.org/Canada/F...Cdn-28-29.html

You can also see two pictures with the sliding rear window shown in the 46 Mercury brochure: https://oldcarbrochures.org/Canada/F...Trucks-04.html


What I don't understand is why our neighbors in the frozen north needed more ventilation than the folks baking in the southern heat!

[Model51]

I don't have the specifics for the 1941 back glass bugs but I can tell you that for 1935-1936 trucks, the Ford oval was 1" wide and 0.56" tall. The oval on the doors and windshield glass is 0.69" c 0.44". Not sure why the rear glass received a larger logo but I've confirmed this with Ford Engineering drawings and several original trucks. Attached is a drawing showing the locations on the glass and the dimensions.
The sliding rear window used two identical glass pieces with the logo installed as shown in the illustration. This results in the logo reading properly on the right hand glass when viewed from the back of the truck and reads correctly from inside the truck on the left hand side (at least that's the way it was supposed to be done during production).
All this info is from the mid-1930's but probably didn't change before WW2..

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by Model51

I don't have the specifics for the 1941 back glass bugs but I can tell you that for 1935-1936 trucks, the Ford oval was 1" wide and 0.56" tall. The oval on the doors and windshield glass is 0.69" c 0.44". Not sure why the rear glass received a larger logo but I've confirmed this with Ford Engineering drawings and several original trucks. Attached is a drawing showing the locations on the glass and the dimensions.
The sliding rear window used two identical glass pieces with the logo installed as shown in the illustration. This results in the logo reading properly on the right hand glass when viewed from the back of the truck and reads correctly from inside the truck on the left hand side (at least that's the way it was supposed to be done during production).
All this info is from the mid-1930's but probably didn't change before WW2..

[kirkf]

As I understand it, the sliding rear window was an option, but not very common.
The interior light on the other hand wasn't an option on the 41 to the best of my knowledge.
Bob Drake has a sliding rear window kit.

https://bobdrake.com/products/1940-4...ear-window-kit

Kirk

[rawlir]

Interior light was an option in 46 & 47.
The rear window conversion is more complicated than i thought, i have a B Drake sliding rear window, may not install it as it would require removing some window metal/posts, etc. If i cut those out & then window installation becomes a problem, there may be no turning back, I am disappointed in myself to learn it is not that easy......

[kirkf]

Agreed on the Bob Drake window installation. I was thinking of doing it until I saw it required modifying the cab.

Kirk

[rawlir]

We are on the same page, optional sliding window would be great BUT modifications like that could go South quickly. I am going to leave that one out.....
Thanks.
Rick

[alanwoodieman]

wait till you are driving down the road in HOT july in the south you will appreciate the sliding rear window

[rawlir]

Alan,
I cant argue that BUT cutting metal around that window frame is dicey....Matching new parts to old parts is a crap shoot!!