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i can see an outline of sorts!

Mathias, It certainly looks like window outlines on the the model you have shown.

The window outlines are raised up a bit I think? With Antonin's from earlier in this Post, that now makes two we now have in the Forum member's collections already that show the remains of the filled windows. We will all be looking closely for these every time we see a Snow Trac now. Good Job Mathias and Antonin, this one can now be Nick's Code one until Jason or Numi find one with the two extra windows on the rear next week. kwakers

Any chance once of our restoration/custom members could knock up a Snow-Trac with three rear windows so we could have some photographs?

Quite by chance, I stumbled across a photograph showing the filled-in rear windows really well:

Hugh, very clear and nice photo. Now there is only a trifle, to find the model with the rear windows
Antonin

Excellent photo Hugh, when does your new model arrive,? Or, have you already mailed it to me? LOL kwakers

Diecast wrote:Hugh, very clear and nice photo. Now there is only a trifle, to find the model with the rear windows
Antonin

What I hadn’t appreciated from previous photographs is that the two missing windows weren’t rectangular. If you look carefully at the photograph I posted, you can see that there was no top left corner of the left-hand window and no top right corner of the right-hand window, both having been cut back quite severely at an angle to leave a large triangle of metal, presumably in an attempt to strengthen the corner posts and so prevent a (partial) roof collapse during tumbling. (In fact, now that I look at the faint outline again, I’m not even sure that the missing windows had any straight top edge at all.)
If any of these still exist, the best bet is probably somewhere in America, simply because (thanks to Antonin) we have documentary proof that at least one was sent to the Bronner Corporation.

Hi Hugh
The rear windows by my SNOW TRAC are rather square.
Antonin

That’s an excellent photograph, Antonin. I agree that it very clearly shows filled-in rectangular windows which means that my interpretation of the original window shape is either based on an optical illusion or (less likely) just one of the tools was modified in an unsuccessful attempt to save the triple rear window design. If the latter, what that would mean is that, following the filling-in of the rear windows, half the body castings would show shadowy rectangular windows and half shadowy angled windows. However, for that to be the case there would have to have been twin moulds that early in the model’s life. Is that credible, or is it more likely that the design would have been completely finalised before the second tool was cut?
Perhaps it’s time for a quick poll. How many members own a 35b Snow-Trac showing evidence of the filled-in windows rather than with a retooled back and, for those that have one, what shape were the windows?