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Originally Posted by Big time
Being double curvature they can't (usually) be made by folding a flat glass.
Watching the cars from their sides you can see windshields and backlights are flat.
So are there any double curvature glass?
If so, how do they make the glass?
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The ones you may be thinking of are from low-volume builders like Mosler,McLaren,'n such.
I've kept my eye on one from the Marauder Lola GT kit.They want $3,000 for one,but it is laminated safety glass and DOT certified.Aerodynamically,it's about as good as we are liable to find.
A company in California which does all-metal concept cars for Detroit can do these animals.They oven-heat the glass into Class-A tooling,which for the Lola is $29,000 for the mold.
A mold for the Bede PULSE/ Litestar is $10,000.