1967 Ambassador Window Trim and interior skin question

[Jhiner1978]

I started this project after everything was taken apart so I don't know what it looked like before and I'm about to put new interior skins in.

The windows are square and I'm not sure how to trim out the windows once I put up the new skins. Can someone post a picture of what the windows look like trimmed out?

Also when I put new interior skins in, do I install them horizontally so that there are seams every 4ish feet that run horizontally down the interior or do I run them vertically and have a seam every 4 feet vertically?

When it comes to the interior seams do I need to put some sort of trim over every seam or do they just overlap and come together with rivets?

[Bubba L]

The interior skin is installed horizontally. On our 1966, 22' trailer, the horizontal sheets are approx 12' long and 4' high. The top horizontal sheet overlaps the bottom by an inch or so and that is where the pop rivets are installed. There is no trim.

Windows:
Here is the face of the trim; it's about 3/4" wide and the corners are riveted.


Here is the backside.


Here you see the ridged screen held to the frame with a screen clip. The knob to open the window is below it.


This photo shows how the face frame slips into the skin opening.


Figured pictures were better than a verbal description; let me know if you have more questions.
Good Luck.

[Jhiner1978]

Originally Posted by Bubba L

The interior skin is installed horizontally. On our 1966, 22' trailer, the horizontal sheets are approx 12' long and 4' high. The top horizontal sheet overlaps the bottom by an inch or so and that is where the pop rivets are installed. There is no trim.



Windows:

Here is the face of the trim; it's about 3/4" wide and the corners are riveted.

Attachment 284700



Here is the backside.

Attachment 284701



Here you see the ridged screen held to the frame with a screen clip. The knob to open the window is below it.

Attachment 284704



This photo shows how the face frame slips into the skin opening.

Attachment 284702



Figured pictures were better than a verbal description; let me know if you have more questions.

Good Luck.

Thanks for the pictures. Does that window trim go in the inside of the window frame? And how does the trim attach to the interior skin it's hard to see in that last picture. Right now it's just the window farm and it's square aluminum and can't figure out how the skin gets trimmed out around the windows. So there is no flex between interior skin and window.

Thanks again

[Bubba L]

Sorry for the confusion. The angular piece of window trim I showed you was from our 55 we're working on. In short, the inner skin on our 66 butts the window frame and the trim piece fits tightly against the frame. There may be a C- channel piece on top of the window or sides. The trim is a 3/4" strip of aluminum with a slight crown running down the center of the trim piece and rivets to the inner skin around the frame. We were short a few pieces and made them. They are simple to make. I will look for better pictures in the morning and send if we find something that will help. Thanks

[Jhiner1978]

Originally Posted by Bubba L

Sorry for the confusion. The angular piece of window trim I showed you was from our 55 we're working on. In short, the inner skin on our 66 butts the window frame and the trim piece fits tightly against the frame. There may be a C- channel piece on top of the window or sides. The trim is a 3/4" strip of aluminum with a slight crown running down the center of the trim piece and rivets to the inner skin around the frame. We were short a few pieces and made them. They are simple to make. I will look for better pictures in the morning and send if we find something that will help. Thanks

Great thanks!

[Jhiner1978]

Originally Posted by Bubba L

Sorry for the confusion. The angular piece of window trim I showed you was from our 55 we're working on. In short, the inner skin on our 66 butts the window frame and the trim piece fits tightly against the frame. There may be a C- channel piece on top of the window or sides. The trim is a 3/4" strip of aluminum with a slight crown running down the center of the trim piece and rivets to the inner skin around the frame. We were short a few pieces and made them. They are simple to make. I will look for better pictures in the morning and send if we find something that will help. Thanks

Any chance you have a pic of the 66 frame

[ALUMINUMINUM]

The 1”wide trim/casing strips around my 1968GT Philips/Corning windows were factory applied in a rail/stile fashion, where the corners were not mitered, they're lapped over each other.

The material and workmanship is cheap and sloppy. It is a thin, perhaps 0.020 ribbon of wall matching vinyl weave covered 5052ish aluminum. The trim is thinner gauge aluminum than the walls. It's junk, affixed with 1/8” pop rivets.

I'll guess that the less than mediocre workmanship/design is poor because the designers/fabricators assumed that most of the window casing would be hidden by curtains.

Someday I will remove it all and re-case the windows with perhaps 3/4” x 1/8” mill finish aluminum strips.

The images are of the original trim/casing as installed in October, 1967, and of a removed strip where you can see that it has about a 20degree transition bend along both its edges.

I got lucky and didn't need any trim around my kitchen window when I back-splashed my kitchen walls.