Tommy82

Has anyone ever used this?
I would like it darker so I'm guessing a tint shop could make it darker?
Or does anyone know a shop near Charlotte NC that will do rear tint on a 82? I hear a lot of shops wont touch a later C3........

http://www.parts123.com/corvettecent...50g&ukey=17847

Street Rat

I found a guy locally who did an excellent job tinting my rear window. He disliked doing it but took it on. He did it in about three hours. It keeps the heat (weather) and prying eyes away.

The part there on your link looks worth a try.

gbvette62

I can't imagine that it's a fun job to do, laying in there on your back, and trying to get the film to follow those contours. I don't even like trying to clean the inside of the back window in my 81!

I didn't know those inserts were still being made. I knew a couple people that bought them years ago, and were pretty happy with them. One nice thing about them, is if you ever tire of the tint, it's a lot easier to remove the insert, then to strip that film off the glass.

jdbuddy

I thought about that tint, but went with louvers instead.

diehrd

I just wonder how much work that will be when you wash the car and water gets between it and the glass .

qwank

me too:

(posting this just for DIEHRD)

gbvette62

No problem at all. It goes on the inside of the rear window, not the outside. It's a thin, flexible, pre-molded piece of Lexan, that you pop into place, inside the rear window.

diehrd

How does it hold itself in place ?

Quank . all i can say is maybe its a good thing I dont have that louver ,, my 427 sbc might have rattled it loose by now lol

qwank

LOL I doubt it though, these things stay on there solid. Quality late 70s technology.

Bloodzone

This product works great. I wedged it in and it looks like a tinted window from the outside. Took less than a minute and cost less than a real tint job. Mine is not dark enough for my taste but I'm sure you can get it tinted easy. I also have rear louvers so they may help hide any fitment issues.

My local tint shop refused to tackle my 79 rear window. I would go with a real tint job if possible but this product is a close second.

qwank

that's a good idea, buy the insert and then tint the insert

The13Bats

I had one of these plastic pop in tint things in the 80's with my 81, I found it hard-ish to install crappy to remove mine creaked and it wasn't at all dark like I desired, I wouldn't one for free....okay the one I had was free.
Even in the 80's tinters hated the 78-82 rear glass, a very talented tinter I knew told me it was because it took a long time to do as time is money with a tinters profit is in speed and how many jobs they can do, and the fact that unless an 82 CE the tinter had to spelunk into the rear and do a 16th chapel idea on their back, on a double curved surface.
After hitting several shops and either being flat turned down or quoted a price that was in the 100's I found a cat, A Jamaican dude, irie mon, he was like 6 foot 7 and 100 pounds wet and crawled in there seats down and his helped handed him stuff and helped hold it, charged me like 50 and it was that black almost cant see through it stuff,
And I had cragar louvers over that.

So now all these years later I would call around and call some more and find someone who is old enough and talented enough to have done at least one before

drinkoj

Too funny! I heading over to my Dad's house today to pick up this product, as it came with our '81 and a car cover we picked up on another salvage car. Everything you said it spot on about its fit and time it take to put it in, and it's just dark enough to keep prying eyes out but still allow good vision out the back.

When we first got out '81 we didn't even realize that it was anything but tinted windows until one of my daughters was wrenching in the back on something and pointed it out. We took it out, which took a little work as it's hard to catch an edge, because I'm not a fan to darker tinting in the rear because I drive at dusk a lot of the time.

LarryC1950

Does anyone know where the Lexan Window tint product can be found? Lots of searching and no luck.

SwampeastMike

Any "proper" rear louvers are hinged at the top and swivel up for cleaning.

stingr69

It was called a "Gila pop in". The company is still around but I doubt they still make the pop in tint for the C3. They do seem to sell the conventional adhesive window film on a roll.