Chopped and Leaned: The Roadster Windshield Thread

NHRA Street Roadster class required a windshield. Some of those guys got pretty creative.

 

A local rarely seen hidden gem...

 

Here's my roadster, not chopped, just slanted way back.
I actually bought the body with the windshield already slanted, so it was done this way in the 50's probably.

 

That looks really good! It makes the car look fast, sitting still.

 

Still with me?

 

Thanks Brent!

 

I feel the same way. If the windshield is leaned, it should be modified at the bottom/cowl mounts to lean it wherever it needs to be.

Bent a tiny bit is OK...

bent alot...looks stupid. IMO.

I think that bent look really takes away from alot of really nice, high end, high quality cars out there.

 

Need to lean this back a little more....

 

Here's the last of the drag photos, from me.

 

Dang, Brent. You've got quite the stash of pictures there!

 

I've been saving them for a while. I'm addicted to roadsters.

 

Very nice!
I think I found my new sig line, "Traditional, but up- tight!"

 

Old L.A. Roadsters '36, formerly owned by Francis DeRocco. Now resides in Hendersonville, N.C.

 

Awesome thread! Matt is it possible someone has hoarded more pics than you?! Haha

 

Here is my 27, kind of drag roadster style, although I recently put a dropped 32 heavy under it which makes it a bit more Hot Rod looking:





I leaned the posts back as far as I could, although I may take another inch or two out of the height. I'm on the lookout for the right Halibrands for the front.

 

Quite possible.. Drats.

 

Brent, thats quite the photo stash you got there. awesome man.

 

Man I love the last picture here. 30/31 roadster with what looks like a chrome 32 3 window dash! Awesome!

 

Fitting for the thread is Tom Pollard's roadster, posted by Brian Bass on Facebook, today.



That's it for me today. Got a long shift ahead of me.

 

Save money on blue pills-browse this thread!

 

As I recall, didn't the Pollard car use a '27 windshield? I always suspected it wouldn't close completely.

It does look great, though!

 

you are absolutely correct, but i have seen it closed completely.

 

You may have seen this tech article... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=678500

 

Bass roadster



Doane Spencer CA dry lake



TRJ Photo shoot, TX playboy in foreground.

 

I was just reading about Pollard's car today in Pat Ganahl's Lost Hot Rods book. I love that car! The windshield works really well I think.

 

Modifieds for the morning....

 

More!