TheSamba.com :: View topic - I need an SP2 windshield and rear window!

Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:00 pm

Is the technology available to make a repro windshield for a car (like my SP2 resto project) that is otherwise impossible to find?

Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:34 pm

wow, nice project!
perhaps you can ask some of our fellow samba people in South America .
and here i thought a t34 was hard to get parts for!, SHEASH!
:lol:
really, good luck with it!

Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:10 pm

Thankx Foxx, but to be honest I don't really know where to start! :wink:

Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:58 pm

i would start with the glass Co. first, even T34's get a run of glass every two or so years, they might still make them. local and Internet, ask local glass folk first and they might have names and numbers to talk to.
i would also try hemmings motor news , they might have something in there about glass.

Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:11 pm

The SP2 was made in Brazil. That is where I would start looking for a windshield.

Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:12 pm

Wow, South Africa. That's quite a ways away from the US, but anyway, there is a large glass outfit on the US east coast, I think Pennsylvania, but I could be wrong. When I was part of the T34 Registry, someone found this outfit and the one person who literally knows the part number of every windshield for every car produced. He knew right away about the T34 and located 6 in the warehouse.

Perhaps check out and ask some questions at the T34 Registry. Someone there will know or be able to point you in the right direction.

Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:35 am

you can find some SP2 parts here:
http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/sp2_CategID_22693

Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:10 am

Thanks a lot all! Now for some Portugese lessons... :wink:

Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:37 pm

If you can figure out the curvature along the top edge and bottom edge of the windshield you may be able to make something fit. Years ago I had a long search for a windshield for a 1976 Lancia Scorpion. The cost of having the glass shipped from Italy to Canada was way out of budget. Instead, a local glass shop took some measurements of the overall size and curves and found that it was a little smaller but otherwise similar in shape to that of a 1981-1990 Ford Escort. That was an easy window to obtain and the glass shop cut it to size.
So, if genuine VW isn't absolutely mandatory... there may be something you can do. My two year wait for a windshield had a quick and simple solution that was remedied in a couple of days.

Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:47 pm

These guys advertise the front windshield for VW SP-1 and SP-2. $R. 470 (approx $260 US.)

http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-56142563-pa...o-raro-_JM

My portugese isn't very good so try using online translator.

Good luck!