Author |
Message |
adriaan pienaar Samba Member
Joined: February 17, 2003 Posts: 692 Location: Sedgefield, South Africa
|
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: I need an SP2 windshield and rear window! |
|
|
Is the technology available to make a repro windshield for a car (like my SP2 resto project) that is otherwise impossible to find?
_________________ Please say Hi to us at
www.aircooledvwsa.co.za &
http://hotwheelsclubza.freeforums.org |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Foxx Uncle Meat
Joined: August 27, 2001 Posts: 4897 Location: at the computer,.......DUH!
|
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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!
really, good luck with it! _________________ Frank
OG JHC
59 panel
Sarcasm is the body's natural defense against stupidity. i seem to use a lot. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
adriaan pienaar Samba Member
Joined: February 17, 2003 Posts: 692 Location: Sedgefield, South Africa
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Foxx Uncle Meat
Joined: August 27, 2001 Posts: 4897 Location: at the computer,.......DUH!
|
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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. _________________ Frank
OG JHC
59 panel
Sarcasm is the body's natural defense against stupidity. i seem to use a lot. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Russ Wolfe Samba Member
Joined: October 08, 2004 Posts: 25187 Location: Central Iowa
|
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The SP2 was made in Brazil. That is where I would start looking for a windshield. _________________ Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!--Edward Abbey
Gary: OK. Ima poop. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Gary Person of Interest
Joined: November 01, 2002 Posts: 17069 Location: 127.0.0.1
|
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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. _________________ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
HMBR Samba Member
Joined: January 29, 2006 Posts: 96 Location: Brazil
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
adriaan pienaar Samba Member
Joined: February 17, 2003 Posts: 692 Location: Sedgefield, South Africa
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
1971BugGuy Samba Member
Joined: October 16, 2004 Posts: 426 Location: Ontario, CANADA
|
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: Windshield |
|
|
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. _________________ Only a fool or a child would judge a project before it reaches its completion.
1971 Super Beetle
1986 Vanagon Westfalia Weekender |
|
Back to top |
|
|
1971BugGuy Samba Member
Joined: October 16, 2004 Posts: 426 Location: Ontario, CANADA
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|