Technical '49-52 Chevy hardtop windshield for a chopped coupe?

Someone mentioned in a thread that the curve for a '49-'52 Chevy hardtop/convertible windshield is not the same as for a sedan/coupe. Can anyone verify and confirm this information?
I have a '51 coupe and I have been planning all along to use a hardtop windshield as part of the chop so it's not an emergency but I definitely need to know before I go buying a one-piece hardtop windshield.
(And if what was meant is that the shape around the top is different that is fine, as long as that ****er will fit into my cowl?)

 

NO ONE knows if a hardtop windshield has the same curve as a sedan windshield??

 

Dave, I bet someone from the following site can answer your question. They have tech advisors who's speciality is particular cars or group of cars.
http://vcca.org/forum/

 

According to this article, the HT has a different curvature.
Check it out: http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/additional-how-to/0701rc-1949-1952-chevrolet-windsheild-replacement/

 

I cut down a 51 tudor winshield at home and put it in a 51 hardtop. It fit as good as you would want. no problem

 

"I cut down a 51 tudor winshield at home and put it in a 51 hardtop. It fit as good as you would want. no problem."
So this may be one of those "facts" started by a magazine article that isn't necessarily so?
I can certainly see how the shape of the windshield at the top might be different, especially at the corners, but I can't imagine the curvature of the cowl would be any different from hardtop to coupe/sedan?
Based on your personal experience, threewindow, I'm going to consider it a myth and I'll be sure to post back here in a couple years if it turns out I'm wrong.

 

I had a 1951 fast back a few years back with bad windshields so bought a hardtop for parts , I think the sedan gl*** was taller ?

 

There's differently a difference between the Fleetline Sedan gl*** and the coupe and sedan gl*** - I pulled all the gl*** out of a Styleline at a yard in AZ and it was too tall for my 50 Pontiac Silverstreak (same as Fleetline)

 

49-52 Chevy and Pontiac have four different windshields:

Styline sedan, coupe, and sedan delivery;
Fleetline 2dr and 4dr (shorter);
Hardtop and convertible;
and station wagons.

Throw in the Olds and you have another set of possibles, as at least the first three body types had the one-piece the last year Olds used the small body.

Every one is slightly different size-wise and I don't know what you gain using one in place of another in a chop that's more than an inch or so.

 

I know they are different heights, that is the whole point!
I also know it's only about 2" difference from the sedan/coupe to the hardtop/convertible. I chopped the '53 in my avatar exactly 2" at the a-pillars.
I also know that fastback windshields are lower than sedans and higher than hard tops.
And I know that one-piece Olds 88 windshields fit Chevies but Olds 98 do not.
All I wanted was to verify that all '49-52 Chevy and Olds 88 windshields have the same shape at the cowl, which I have (see above).

I guess this has turned into a Chevy windshield info thread?


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