Good morning everyone and a Happy Easter to all. I'm thinking about purchasing a William's Crown Edition passenger car set but I'm not real crazy about the window figure strip. How involved would it be to open the cars and replace the window strips with an opaque plastic strip? I'm not going to detail the interior and lighting is not important to me. Thank you.
Mark
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Easy peasy. 
It's not hard to open the cars, and you can peel the strips right off and glue the ones of your choice in.
Gunrunnerjohn,
Thank you for the input.
Mark
Mark Zeigler posted:<snip> How involved would it be to open the cars and replace the window strips with an opaque plastic strip? I'm not going to detail the interior and lighting is not important to me. Thank you.
Mark
Why opaque? Even without lights and an interior a clear plastic strip would seem to look better.
Mark,
What set are you thinking about? Some of the Williams Crown Edition passenger cars can be a real headache to work with, the couplers are horrible on one version of the Crown Edition. Make sure the couplers can open & close as the fixed coupler series have terrible problems and I had to make my one set "shelf queens" or replace the all the truck assemblies, this set has 6 passenger cars with it. So far I have only replaced one set of trucks on my 6 car set as it gets expensive to replace truck assemblies when you need around 10 or 12.
To open the passenger cars take out 6 screws on the bottom of the car; 2 in the front, 2 in the center and 2 in the rear.
Lee Fritz
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