Glazing shite - weird and wonderful windows

[JeeExEll]

[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]

[JeeExEll]

[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.

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

Never did work out why they build a brand new bodyshell for this

 

[Pillock]

Also, you're gonna love this. I remembered a truck from my youth - it was getting on a bit then, but there were a few on the road in the early 80s. It had a curved bit of glass below the windscreen on each corner. Could I find out what it was? Could I buggery.

 

Mrs_Pillock found it, when given the brief "It's like an old delivery truck with curved windows on the front corners" within 3 minutes. Leyland FG.

It feels too old, but this is on a T plate and I'm a 70s kid so probably about right.

 

 

I notice Boris is trying to convince hauliers using the London streets to angle-grind a hole in the nearside door of their wagons and put a window in for visibility of cyclists. He's about 40 years late to the party!

[coalnotdole]

How about the Renault 5 6x6?
 

 

 
Or the Citroën BX Dyana?
 

 

Or The Citroën GS Camargue...

 

 

 

Ford were at it too with the Ford Megastar Ghia:

 

[Junkman]

What is that and what year did it die?

 

It's a 1971 Stutz Blackhawk. It lived on well into the Eighties in various incarnations and lost the split screen on the way, I don't know exactly when.

It's the last Exner styled car that went into production ever.

[davocano]

Nearly a y tho

 

 

Lotus letterbox

 

 

Weird but Corolla so I hearts

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Also, you're gonna love this. I remembered a truck from my youth - it was getting on a bit then, but there were a few on the road in the early 80s. It had a curved bit of glass below the windscreen on each corner. Could I find out what it was? Could I buggery.

 

Mrs_Pillock found it, when given the brief "It's like an old delivery truck with curved windows on the front corners" within 3 minutes. Leyland FG.

It feels too old, but this is on a T plate and I'm a 70s kid so probably about right.

 

 

I notice Boris is trying to convince hauliers using the London streets to angle-grind a hole in the nearside door of their wagons and put a window in for visibility of cyclists. He's about 40 years late to the party!

Known to those of us of more mature years as a Thruppenny Bit, not to be confused with the Cockerney rhyming slang Thruppenny Bits.

For example

Here is a lovely old Thruppenny Bit.

And look at the Thruppenys on that.

[Pillock]

I was going to post that exact picture but thought it too small to fully appreciate the glazing

[mercrocker]

Following on from Thruppenny Bits, but a lot more flat-chested, the Roadrunner had a dog window, too...