Beautiful. An amazing amount of work to make those. Do you remember how many hours you spent building them?
From O'Brien Truckers. Totally agree with these making the cockpit less turbulent and noisy. I can't attest to how the other might be to fit, but Hallock from O'Brien requires the w/s riser to be trimmed and the of the cowl smoothed, rather like a '27 roadster. My car had already had the cowl reshaped to fit a similar style w/s frame, for which I have the wood pattern. The cost to have one cast from my pattern was exorbitant, so I bought the O'Brien and modified the top of the (already modified) cowl to meet it.
This body is 'glass, the cowl was modified by the original builder (who built the molds and did several bodies), without a w/s rail. I can't say if the dash rail is reproduced from an original or if he built it to fit the cowl. The wood (actually, MDF) w/s pattern is beautiful, but it was to pricey to have cast.
Oh it’s great to learn that a windshield is on its way. It would be great to learn how much effort is required to get it to fit your body. HFH.
It's gonna be a while before I tackle it because I'm waiting for a complete unassembled RPU body also, then I also have to work on my customers cars and am restoring my XIX century farm. The problem is that the older I get the more stuff I have to do and the days and years are getting shorter.
This one is made of scrap steel and cost around $10. I made templates out of Masonite and used an angle grinder, drill press and a mig welder. It took a bit of time to fit it to the cowl but after that…it was downhill. Don’t mind the 3 tone paint
The windshield frame on our boats at work are hand built out of stainless steel . It’s a multi piece unit all welded together and may go that route on my roadster. The tube is machine out on the Bridgeport for the glass to slide in . A stainless cover holds the glass in on the bottom. We then polish it to a 4 micro mirror finish. Finding glass may be a issue as this is for a factory car and too wide for a car. So what glass do you use for the Duvall , sellers or O’Brien s
To let everybody know, I received my cal custom windshield from summit some months ago, it looks decent, I can't tell you how it fits on the Brookville A because it took a year to get that body (quite an ordeal from Brookville) and it's sitting now in a hangar 3 hours away from me for the last 3 months... From the pictures of the O'Brien windshield, I can't see any differences. So I'm still wondering if it's a knock off or if it's O'brien who supply them to Summit. I have no clue either if that Cal Custom brand has any connection to the famed old one or not, I couldn't find any info on them and it seems that it's their only product.
Ok, so I took that Cal Custom/Summit Hallock frame out of it's packaging and found something interresting WTF? Am I reading that right? Does it says Sellers with most of the Equipped erased? I thought that Sellers sold his patterns to O'Brien? If so that means O'Brien is casting those frames for Summit to sell under the brand Cal Custom (I suppose that brand belongs to them, because when you google them they only pop up on Summit)
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