Studebaker truck glass

[phil cottingham]

Where is the best place to get glass for 55 Studebaker pickup?

 

[sneakysnake]

Probably limited to who has it. might search Ebay but here is a starting place.

http://www.metropartsmarket.com/glass/classicautoglass-c15s18.html

 

[HOT40ROD]

I think all the glass in that truck is flat. If so you can have it cut.

 

[sneakysnake]

I think all the glass in that truck is flat. If so you can have it cut.

By '55 everyone had gone to one piece curved laminated glass on windshields,except buses
and big trucks.

 

[phil cottingham]

studebaker glass

Yes all glass is flat but the windshield. I don't need the back glass but everything else, including the rubber. I didn't realize glass shops could make the door glass and vents. I'll have to start checking.

 

[TIMOTHALE]

laminated glass

New cars use tempered glass usually curved . older cars used flat laminated glass made from 2 pieces of glass with a plastic inner layer. The plastic can age and bubbles show up between the sheets. A good glass shop can cut the flat glass to fit a pattern, either use a heater or solvent to disolve the plastic. When I had the round Monical windshield made for my model T speedster the glass shop said it was illegal to install glass that did not have the safety seal, Normally it was in the bottom corner of the new flat glass and would not show on a round piece of glass. I said OK change the invoice to say the glass is for a porthole window on a boat.

 

[Bamamav]

All windsheild glass is laminated, curved and flat. You wouldn't want tempered glass for a windsheild, one rock and you'd be wearing millions of tiny glass fragments. Laminated, a rock hits it, it usually only breaks the outer layer although I have seen both layers break, the one in my Lincoln did that. Just depends on the hardness of the lick and size of the projectile....

 

[Skip]

All windsheild glass is laminated, curved and flat. You wouldn't want tempered glass for a windsheild, one rock and you'd be wearing millions of tiny glass fragments. Laminated, a rock hits it, it usually only breaks the outer layer although I have seen both layers break, the one in my Lincoln did that. Just depends on the hardness of the lick and size of the projectile....

Lead ones usually fracture both layers.

 

[soltz]

Lead ones usually fracture both layers.

I've seen some people that can do that with their heads Getting them out is a bitch.