I had planned to tint my windows... until I drove it. With just the factory tint the visibility is terrible on a 69 sportsroof, and with my lack of awareness, no tint for me.

ALL my widows are tinted except the windshield.
After many many years the rear window needs to be re-done. I guess......from running with the windows down so often.

When I was a teen (60's) I used the spray on wind tint!  I sprayed them ALL (including the windshield !)
This was before the stick-on kind AND the "limits" of how dark your windows can be.
Certainly limited my visibility butt the cool-factor....over rode good sense. (Having teenage vision certainly helped a lot too!)
6s6

They might surprise ya JKB!
My guy in Charleston....sprayed the outside of the window with soapy water.....then laid the tint film on the OUTSIDE and cut it out....then .......bingo-bango perfect fit when sticking on the inside. Guess your guy will need to lay down with feet toward the front  and place the film overhead on to window.
FUN!! Huh
6sally6

Every DD I have had in the past 25 years ( 5 in total) gets a light tint courtesy of SIL who used to be in the auto trim business. I like the extra solar reduction and cutting the brightness of a sunny winter day with lots of snow cover.
I refuse to do the little red 68.

Toploader wrote:

I've never done tinting or had it applied to any of my car's (other than what came out of factory with late model cars), so it's all new to me.
Does the tinting really add the cool factor?....IMHO yes it does.




It's probably beneficial with keeping heat out in summer.

.....negligible butt better than none!
                                                                                                       NOT gonna replace AC butt does reduce                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      t                                                                                                        the glare (somewhat)

6s6     
 

I am considering getting window tinting, especially for the rear fastback window, and the side windows.  My 65 does not have any factory tinting and, with the A/C on, I can certainly feel the sun through the windows more so then our daily drivers with factory tinting. 
I will use tinting similar to factory and state legal requirements, seems good enough and don’t want issues with the police.

I had mine tinted keeps it a lot cooler  in a black on black car.

Steve69 wrote:

I remember when I was stationed at Fort Hood TX in 1987 I had my 1979 Mustang Tinted.  80% on back window and 50% on the sides.   When my tour was up in TX I drove home to Wisconsin.  About 5 miles in to Wisconsin I get pulled over by a State Trooper.  He took a knife and starting peeling the side of my tint off.  He said this isn't factory and your getting fined for having it on your car.  So I had to pull it all off when I got home and have my car inspected by the trooper office when I was done.  I went through a bottle of Goo Gone to get the sticky residue off the windows...LOL   

 
What a dick!

I have gotten stopped and received several tickets for window tint but have wrote several window tint tickets before but probably have wrote more than I have received. I mainly used it as probable cause to get inside that car and look for DUI’s,Narcotics, stolen items wanted people and kidnapped kids and people which I have found a little of all. Never wrote a window tint ticket or a seat belt ticket by themselves but did if I found other things to go along with it cause Court needed a record of why I stopped the car.

Last edited by BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA (10/25/2022 12:11 PM)

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

I have gotten stopped and received several tickets for window tint but have wrote several window tint tickets before but probably have wrote more than I have received. I mainly used it as probable cause to get inside that car and look for DUI’s,Narcotics, stolen items wanted people and kidnapped kids and people which I have found a little of all. Never wrote a window tint ticket or a seat belt ticket by themselves but did if I found other things to go along with it cause Court needed a record of why I stopped the car.

Well, it is nice to know that the police aren't much different in Georgia than in NY! 
 

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

I have gotten stopped and received several tickets for window tint but have wrote several window tint tickets before but probably have wrote more than I have received. I mainly used it as probable cause to get inside that car and look for DUI’s,Narcotics, stolen items wanted people and kidnapped kids and people which I have found a little of all. Never wrote a window tint ticket or a seat belt ticket by themselves but did if I found other things to go along with it cause Court needed a record of why I stopped the car.

Each Police are differnt

lowercasesteve wrote:

BobE wrote:

MS wrote:

All fastback rear windows in 65-66, at least, had factory tint.

Do you know what level of tinting was installed?  If there any tinting on my 65's rear window, it isn't much. 
 

I do not recall tinting was even available in '66, anywhere.  It was not on mine when I bought it.  It is a coupe, though.

I should have also stated that my 65 did not come with A/C.  If I remember correctly, tinted windows was a required option when A/C was installed back in those years.