rx7locost wrote:
many family glass shops can MAKE a flat laminated safety glass windshield based on your template. FYI, I had mine made locally and installed for ~ $60, 6 or 7 years ago. I even has them etch the required ASTM rating in the glass. Inflation has been low these last few years. I can't imagine it being over 100 and may be quite lower. As for curved glass....... I have no idea.
AFAIK, they just cut the desired shape from commercially available flat laminated safety glass, if that's what you mean by "make." The Sanders glass place in Vancouver BC uses a water jet and shipped mine for about $100. As for you guys trying to find curved glass windshields in the right size, good luck. As is being found, the only glass out that that'll fit our tiny cars will be from oddball European models that were never imported to the US. Possible to get the glass, yes, easy or cheap, no. Personally, if I ran into this I'd redesign the car around flat glass, but that's just me.
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