Thread: 32 Ford Roadster Windshield Finger Pulls

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Thanks Bob for lightening the photo, Denny did it too but I don't know how you guys did it? Today I found the "T" cross section rubber in the Bratton original parts catalog for the side coverage. C9X that is the sort of detail I appreciate. Who needs pulls when the wind will blow the glass back anyway. Now I know I need to ponder over some sort of "stop". I wonder how a wall mount bottle opener would look, hah? Probably that is too wide but an interesting idea. I wonder what held the stock windshield? There is an original roadster near me, maybe I can take a look at that. If push comes to shove I prefer angle iron over aluminum for paintability but I will look around for some aluminum angle too. There was no pattern and I left it to the glass guy to cut the piece but when I took it back he stalled as to trimming 1/8" off the top. I may look around for another glass shop to cut the windwings, I will have patterns for them. I don't know whether to buy the stock tall windwings and have 2" trimmed off the bottom or try to get the whole angled shape cut; certainly I don't have much confidence in this glass shop. Overall, looking at what is there now the 1/8" lowering due to the oval hole helps the coverage of the rubber flap a bit. C9X thanks for the realistic comments out of your experience, I am afraid I am a "git-er'done" guy also but your comments are valuable! If you have a picture of you friend's "stop" I would like to see that.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder