Sometimes glass is fragile, sometimes it surprises.. I remember following a
Datsun 510 along a gravel road in Michgan that had been used for a stage for a
european style rally.. I wasn't quite keeping up to the 510 (in my '74 B210)
and rounded a corner.. theres the 510, off the road against a tree.. No one
was hurt.. and the back glass from the 510 was in one piece, on the ground!!!
Jeff Von Holten
In a message dated 4/18/2005 9:07:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tcost@hot.rr.com writes:
I bought a collection of several old Toyota Corollas once and decided to put a
"good" windshield in the "good" car. One of my friends advised me to sit in
the drivers seat and push out on the windshield with both feet. I promptly
broke my windshield into millions of little pieces. The Toyota has a metal
reinforcement in the rubber seal and the glass had nowhere to go. One of the
other Corollas had a "good" windshield that I took to a professional and let
him install. I cut the rubber seal off and used the "good" seal from the
windshield I broke. Professional installers will guarantee their work. If
they buy something and then break it they will replace it. It's a little more
expensive, but you don't end up with your feet sticking out through the
windshield.
If you are somewhere around Mineral Wells on the First of May come see Andy
and me autocross his SRL 2400 roadster. Andy has been "tweaking" the car this
week and we should be a little faster. Andy's job is to Go Fast and my job is
to Look Good, so he will probably beat me, but I'll get the points for Style.
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