Glazing shite - weird and wonderful windows

[Tayne]

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

That car always makes me think of the line from Gattica,

 

“I was conceived in the Riviera, not the French Riveira...”

 

[mercrocker]

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

 

Probably some kit shite like the Madison..

 

 

 

 

However, if we are talking real vehicles, does this in any of its incarnations count as a Car? 

 

 

 

Probably not....if it does, then 1970. 

 

 

Otherwise, my suggestion is these.....Until 1968, incredibly, only ousted by the DS420

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Windows.

They’re for old people who can’t judge the length of their vehicle, aren’t they?

In the olden* days, if you weren’t chopping your Moggie thou A and C pillars to reduce your vision, you were old and past it.

Great to see manufacturers have embraced this trend of making cars look less like greenhouses .

 

[JeeExEll]

Saloon hatchback.

[JeeExEll]

. . . through the round window . . .

The urge to sit in the boot and look out of that window is immense.

[JeeExEll]

Factory option.

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[mercrocker]

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

 

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No, I had never noticed that! 

 

Kaiser also kept the widow's peak in their roof pressing after going to one-piece windscreens...

 

 

 

[vulgalour]

What, no Sera?

 
Tatra T87 looks a bit strange anyway and instead of a front wraparound, you get these little extra panes.

 
The rear window on them is even more odd.  At first it doesn't even seem to have a rear window.

 
It's there, though.

 
It makes the Citroen XM rear window arrangement seem conventional.

 
In fact, the XM glazing is worth a mention here in its own right.

[JeeExEll]

[vulgalour]

Then there's Panhard with their mid-thirties Dynamic.

 

 

[JeeExEll]

[vulgalour]

AMC Marlin has this weird shaped pillarless window combo.  Notable for having a vinyl insert option for the side trim.

 

The Consul Capri got a similar treatment, and then they weirded it up further with the saloon version.

 

 

Someone even made an estate version and that's even weirder.

[JeeExEll]

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[vulgalour]

Ah, the Marcos Mantis, not so much designed as... happened.

[vulgalour]

Piper GT

 

 

[vulgalour]

Lancia Flavia Zagato.

 

 

[mercrocker]

Didn't realise that back window did that!  

[Junkman]

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

 

No. Yes.

[Junkman]

 

No wonder they rusted like fuck.

[Junkman]

I believe this is the last production car launched with a split windscreen.

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I like the fact Tickford obviously designed the S1 Starion Wagon around some off the shelf windows they must have had lying around.

 

When I was amid my Dads S1 didn't have Alpine lights or Windows each side of the lift up tailgate, because it was ex-Civil Defence.

I was alwYs jealous of Alpine lights and Tropical roofs, they held some exotic mysticism to me.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

And here's one that pisses me off every time I see one.

 

That stupid fucking triangle that has to be on the side of the W213 to enable the rest of the side windows to go down.

Engineered like no other car? Cobbled together like a Dutton Sierra , more like.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

Judging by this thread if weird Windows meant commercial success, Studebaker would rule the World

[Asimo]

Junkman just reminded me

[vulgalour]

Want weird windows?  Pegaso.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish company better known for their trucks than their weird and wonderful little cars.

[Junkman]

Meet Gabriel Voisin, purveyor of fine weird windows.

 

 

 

 

[Tayne]

I believe this is the last production car launched with a split windscreen.

 

What is that and what year did it die?