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aerohead · 01-19-2016, 05:59 PM

The shape is good,but while it IS safety glass,it's not DOT certified laminated safety glass,and we'd never be able to legally use it.
I bought a backlight from a '96 Camaro thinking I might be able to run it as a windshield at Bonneville.They said no way!
There is a Maurader,Lola GTP race car kit (about $50,000 US) with a windshield very much like Western Washington used.$3,000 last time I checked.

They said that the mold used to produce their windshield cost them $29,000.
Even tooling for the little Bede Litestar windshield is $10,000.
The Lotus Elise glass is interesting.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 15,892 Thanks: 23,969 Thanked 7,221 Times in 4,648 Posts	corvette backlight The shape is good,but while it IS safety glass,it's not DOT certified laminated safety glass,and we'd never be able to legally use it. I bought a backlight from a '96 Camaro thinking I might be able to run it as a windshield at Bonneville.They said no way! There is a Maurader,Lola GTP race car kit (about $50,000 US) with a windshield very much like Western Washington used.$3,000 last time I checked. They said that the mold used to produce their windshield cost them $29,000. Even tooling for the little Bede Litestar windshield is $10,000. The Lotus Elise glass is interesting. __________________ Photobucket album: http://s1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/aerohead2/ Last edited by aerohead; 01-19-2016 at 06:05 PM..