Glazing shite - weird and wonderful windows

[Junkman]

[Junkman]

[Tayne]

Still never seen one of these "panoramic " Astras.

 

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Did they ever happen outside of a few press cars? Were they too expensive?

 

I like the idea of the 'screen going back to behind the driver's head. But probably not enough to buy a modern hatchback like an Astra.

 

Enough to buy a Model X?

 

 

[Junkman]

[Junkman]

[Skizzer]

One of the many quirks of the NSU Ro80 is the complex double curvature of its windscreen, which is slightly concave at the bottom and sharply convex at the top.

 

 

Claus Luthe got so into it that by the time he got around to designing the side windows he said oh fuck it, just stick some flat glass in.

[Junkman]

[Junkman]

The strangely veed windscreen of the '62 Dodges and Plymouths.

 

[Skizzer]

Oh, and also

 

 

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[Junkman]

The concave-convex-concave rear screen of the late '60s Mopars.

 

[Tayne]

[Tayne]

Did the Rancho do it first?

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

The first ever mass* produced car with curved side glass.

 

[Tayne]

Is it a Cadillac?

[Junkman]

'57 Imperial.

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

Baccaruda.

[JeeExEll]

Was it really worth all that effort?

- Of course it fucking was. Look at it

[coalnotdole]

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[Asimo]

What was the last car available with a split windscreen? (Pineapple vans and Landrovers don't count)

[rantingYoof]

I'm so damn pleased I started this thread.

 

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

[mercrocker]

Any truth in the idea that "Boat tail" Rivieras used 64 Corvette rear glass?   Or did I dream, invent, lie  about that somewhere else?

[Tayne]

What was the last car available with a split windscreen? (Pineapple vans and Landrovers don't count)

Amazingly I don’t wish to claim Land Rover this time as they ditched the split screen in 1985.

[mercrocker]

I'm so damn behind with what I wanted to do today because you started this thread.

 

 

EFA

[JeeExEll]

Round at Gran and Grandpa's, going to take them out for a nice Sunday drive.

 

"That's it, in you get, Grandpa can sit in the front. Yes, the dogs can come too. Maybe we'll go to the beach".

[barrett]

Everyone knows about the incredible wraparound rear window of the Studebaker Starlight, but did you ever notice it is the only model in the Studebaker range with a one-piece front screen too? Four door and two door saloons and even the business coupe had a split jobbies, but the Starlight (and the convertibles) got a one-piece item with an awkward peak in the centre as the sheet metal was unchanged... In '51 the whole range lost the split window