Each door has two pieces of weatherstripping across the bottom of the window opening - one on each side of the glass. They're both held on by three clips - on the outside, the clips attach to the chromium trim (see below); on the inside, the clips attach to the door itself.
A shot from inside the door, looking straight up. Weatherstrips and attached clips are clearly visible.
The clips on the old girl are mostly toast - rusted and/or brittle. The service manual info on the removal of these clips basically says "you're going to destroy these clips when you remove'em", so I just went to town with a flathead screwdriver and a rubber mallet.
Here's the inner weatherstrip on the left rear door, partly removed. They curve up slightly at the ends away from the small fixed windows, to match the curve of the opening on the door frame.
One strip, and the nasty dead clips formerly holding it in place.
On the front doors, on the ends nearest the back of the car, there's an extra vertical piece that goes in as well. This piece curves a bit at the top to, again, match the curve of the window opening.
Next out is the run channel. This is a padded piece that the window glass slides within and snugs into at the top, that is several feet long, wrapping from nearly the bottom of the door frame on one end, up and around, and nearly back down to the bottom of the door frame on the other side. It's held in by several clips attached to the inside of the window area, combined with an adhesive.
It takes a good bit of tugging, but basically that's the trick - just got to pull hard, to break the adhesive's grip.
And out it comes! The other three doors fall quickly to my newfound destructive skills.
A pic of a couple of the run channel clips, still in place (tabs slide into round holes in the frame). I think all the clips on the car are still in good enough shape to re-use (assuming the new run channels don't come with sets of clips).
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