colored windows?

ive seen a few cars here with the colored windows..red, orange, green, etc etc and im curious when this fad started and where. im guessing maybe it started in drag cars and some people carried it over to their hot rods and customs. thanks for any info.

 

I wonder if some of it was due to the racers replacing the gl*** with lexan or something. I think it looks cool on the right car.

 

never thought about it like that. i bet your right...light weight for racing, not just the look.

 

On my 55 Chevy I used color-chrome in the late 50's to tint the license plate gl*** cover blue. In 63 I used something like that to tint the side windows but it was marketed as a spray on window tint.

It was unusual in that instead of trying to spray an even coat, you sprayed it heavily until it ran off the window down into a tray you would make out of tape at the bottom of the window. Hard to believe, but it came out very well with an equal tint throughout.
Ol Blue

 

Yes, what he said.! Let it run!.............OLDBEET

 

Cal Custom was selling spray tint in half a dozen colors mid-'60s ... Buick offered E-Z-Eye tinted gl*** optionally as early as 1950, and SIA said Chrysler used it as early as the '30s in Imperials.

 

well i like the look, but right now i dont have a hamb safe car, (sometimes you gotta say bye to em when the right money is tossed at ya) but i do have a 68 chev panel i decided to finish up before i find another pre 64 ride. i was thinking about putting red windows in but if they stopped doing it by 68 i'm going to p***.

 

I sprayed the windows of my '59 Vette with blue tint. I used it on every car I had after it came out. The colored windows did start with plexigl*** windows in racecars - mostly gas cl***es.


Mutt

 

I've seen 60's drag cars with what I presumed to be tinted plexigl***

 

Many g***ers used colored plexigl*** windows in the 60's for weight savings.You'll see plenty of them in the book G***er Wars.

 

there was an A with a piece of green plexi for a windshield at Viva. it was a bad ride.

 

The one with pink steelies right?

 

I first saw them on full bodied drag cars, and later on lowriders.

 

but can you buy safety gl*** tinted in colors other than limo black & bronze??? if so, where??

 

This 32 has green/blue windows and it's in the gl*** not a tint. I know it's gonna need a pc so I would love to know were to get..

 

Any gl*** shop can order colored safety gl***. I got mine smoke grey.

 

yeah, that's the one. don't mind my girl in the way.

 

Colored gl*** predates drag cars and dragstrips for that matter. Several cars in the first autoramas in Detroit had full flat gl*** windows that were blue tint and the one that comes to mind was Jerry Yatch's 40 Merc convertible and that was in the mid fifties. Also remember a 36 Ford 4 door custom with blue gl*** throughout.
This was full regular gl*** and heavy.

Drag cars used it because you could get newfangled plexiglas in very thin sheets and it was optically good with tinted colors. and flexible to a degree.

 

I kinda like it. Would like to see more pics of it too. Nice lady also.

 

I tend to agree about the drag cars. In Texas all of the "hot rod type cars" (altered, g***ers, and modified) would use plexigl*** to save weight and some even tried to compliment the color of the car with the window color. I also think that regular gl*** was too costly and as was mentioned, didn't flex and could/did break.
Jim