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Old 04-09-2013, 11:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
Arashi
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Creating a bubble top for a kit car, legal? and my aero car design.

Hi I wish to build my dream car far into the future one day and I was wondering if I can have a custom glass company make me a laminated, safety glass, bubble front windshield and for it to be DOT legal?

Having my own CNC machine to carve the windshield design and if I were to make my own molds for it, it may only cost a few thousand for a company to press the glass shape Im guessing.

Ideally I want it to look like the lower car in the following picture which was designed over an NSX chassis.


My other more attainable idea is to make new A-pillars on a Porsche Boxster with a Lotus Elise windshield.



The Porsche donor design is far less exotic looking, so Im hoping the bubble glass top might be possible to certify it DOT legal if anyone has any insight.


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