No, no rubber on the side screen. It wasn't an easy up hood though. 9 Lift the dot on windscreen.
That's interesting, I had always thought that the switch to the wider chassis (the old ones were just 36" between the vertical faces of the chassis rails) happened at the same time as the change to BTR axles, heated windscreens and new-style sidescreens. IIRC the Easy-up hood was always an option rather than standard fit at that time.
One way to quickly tell if the car is on a wider chassis is to look at the headlight spacing on the wings. Narrows tyres and narrow chassis like mine and the gap is very small indeed.
Wider chassis but narrow tyres means a bigger gap, and wide chassis with wide tyres gives you the massive wide look.
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