1959-1964 Impala Windshield Seal: Which One Fits Your Body Style and Year

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1959-1964 Impala Windshield Seal: Which One Fits Your Body Style and Year

The 1959-1964 Impala is one of the best-selling classics we ship weatherstrip for, and the windshield seal is the single most-returned decision in the category. Not because the parts are wrong — because "1964 Impala" isn't specific enough to order one. The same year, same model, in a different roof takes a different windshield rubber, and they are not interchangeable.

Here's how to get it right on the first try.

The one thing you have to know: your roof

GM built the full-size Chevy on four body styles in these years, and each seals its windshield differently:

  • Pillared sedan (a B-pillar between the doors, framed door windows)
  • Two-door hardtop (Sport Coupe — no B-pillar)
  • Four-door hardtop (Sport Sedan — no B-pillar)
  • Convertible

Wagons follow the sedan seal. Once you know which of those you have, the part is simple.

1963-1964 Impala — the four seals, by body

This is the cleanest split, so it's worth spelling out completely. Each of these states its body in its own listing:

Four bodies, four seals, all around sixty dollars. The mistake that generates a return is grabbing the sedan seal for a Sport Coupe because both say "1963 Impala." They don't fit the same opening.

1961-1962 Impala

For the 1961-62 full-size Chevy, the hardtop-and-sedan windshield seal is wcrd609, $61.99 — it covers a wide range of 1961-62 GM makes (Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac). Building a 1961-62 convertible? That's a different seal — search your body specifically rather than assuming the hardtop rubber carries over, because on the open cars it usually doesn't.

1959-1960 Impala

The 1959-60 cars split the same way — sedan versus hardtop versus convertible. Because a couple of the 1959-60 body-specific seals move in and out of stock, the safest path is to browse the current 1959-60 options in Windshield Seals and match your exact roof, or ask us and we'll confirm the right one for your car.

A note on "it fits other makes too"

You'll notice these Impala seals also list Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Cadillac in their fitment. That's real — GM shared the B-body windshield opening across the full-size line, so the same rubber seals a lot of 1959-64 GM cars. If you're doing a Bonneville, an 88, or an Electra of these years, the same body-style rule applies: match the roof, not just the year.

Two parts that go with the seal

If your car wears stainless windshield trim, replace the reveal-molding clips while the glass is out — a new seal on tired clips is how trim ends up wavy. And plan the rear glass at the same time; the back window follows the same body-style logic and lives in Rear Window Seals.

Order the right one the first time

Answer one question — sedan, 2-door hardtop, 4-door hardtop, or convertible — and the 1959-64 Impala windshield seal stops being a guess. Not sure which roof you've got, or shopping for a Buick/Olds/Pontiac cousin? Tell us the year and body and we'll point you at the exact part.