Customs '50 truck windshield frame on my '49 car - how i did it

Okay been busy creating a full custom look for the '49. wanted to do something to stand out and plus i love a challenge. here is what I did:

Bought a 1950 GMC truck cab and cut the windshield portion free. Grafted to my car after many many hours of measuring and planning...

enjoy the pictures, hope you like it. I do!









Started to slice and dice to make it fit:







filling in the gaps:




















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continued...

 

darn near completed:















full build can be seen here - many more pictures

http://thewebczar.com/build/windshield/



thanks for looking.

 

Pretty wild. I would like to see a full pic of the car if you can

 

cool idea.... id also like to see a pic of the whole car....

 

Cool....full 3/4 pic please

 

not the best shots







will roll it back out soon and snap some more... in the middle of redoing the back gl***. sigh

 

I'm glad it came out as well as it did. I hate to see the loss of an AD/ND truck but that's a cool sacrifice. Around here, that's about the best part of the dang things anyway. MI winters eat the steel from the door handles down!

 

very nice!

 

If it makes you feel better, the cab was toast, top was only good part left..

 

taken from video - so kinda grainy

 

OK, now that's friggin' SICK boys & girls!!! However, I am now even more curious of what the back window as gonna be.... Sometimes, suspence is the best part of the build!

 

I like it. good job.

 

I can honestly say I haven't seen that before but I imagine you'll be seeing more of that now. It looks great man! Good job.

 

Thanks means a lot to hear kind words for this group.

The coping of this idea is why i kept it silent until completed... But hay at least I know I was the first one! and first crazy enough to try it The car will be out in the public this summer in Nor Cal car shows, look for it.

 

wow that looks really good, nice job man...

 

Well executed....when I first read it my first thought was ....aw boy...

after seeing it.....good job I like it!

 

I love that kind of creativity. Great skills displayed there.

THe only thing that i think would add to it would be fix where the rear of the hood meets the w/s area. You have this wicked looking V shaped widows peak on the roof line, and than this big sweeping arc going side to side. If you could match the hood lines to that, i think it would be incredible.

Still, fan-freakin-tastic!!

 

really great work dude! thanks for sharing with all the great pic's!

 

Thanks everyone for all the nice things you have said.

Was very leery about posting in fear of getting bashed. I am just one guy in a 2 car garage trying to build a cool kustom. Learn as I go.

 

YEA man I like it! Dare to be different is a lot of work but well worth it when finished and onlookers cant figure out what you did . ( Nice job.) Its a ball standing back listening to guys trying to figure it out.I put two cars together a rear 1/2 Chevy Fleetline and a front 1/2 Desoto Airflow.It throws a curve to the car know it all's,a lot of fun screwing with them.

 

I'm diggin it too. Love customs. I'd have to agree with the base/hood comments but even that's just a small critique. Great concept. Doing a custom is always about improving the looks so you're a winner in that regard.

 

Very interesting. I'm liking it.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

 

You're a innovator, looks awesome.

 

I really dig it!

 

Thats bad***! It has a Merc look to it with the flat gl*** plus gonna make the windshield cutting alot easier to deal with.

Good Job

 

NIce work, and I'm not trying to be picky, but the base of the w/s post ending abruptly at the cowl, with the little step, looks clumsy, and, as somebody else pointed out, the hood and w/s base lines should compliment each other.

Everybody's a critic, right?

Brian

 

That "little hump" will be a small pc of stainless trim that matches the door beltline. It will be a nice ending to the beltline and otherwise would have looked odd if the door beltline just stopped. I have not cut it yet so can not demo it...

As far as the hood and windshield shape, yes that bugs me too, and I will address it, one step at a time.

 

awsome job

 

This whole build is sweet! Good quality work!

Klaus

 

Don't hate me here, but I see something. I've been looking at it a lot because it's so kool but I wanted to share what I see. The base of the W/S gl*** and the angle of the center strip and the "mean angle" of the door gl***. The overall angle of the W/S base at the center might want to exceed the overall angle of the door gl*** leading angle by a small percentage. It wouldn't take much and could be adressed when you get to the hood edge. Being flat gl*** you can doo whatever needs to be to make it all work. And oh yeah, oh yeah, the stainless trim finish idea kicks ***. Now if it's the picture angles doing it to me then disregard everything I said and call me a ****...