JacktheRiffer wrote:
Not sure I follow...
That's 'cause I didn't 'splain it well. Photos may help.
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Here's a 1957 GMC pickup truck. The windshield is curved quite radically at the ends, but as seen by the almost-straight reflection of the florescent bulb, it flattens out as you get closer to the middle.
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In profile, it's a straight line from top to bottom, and you can cut the windshield in a straight line as long as you're not cutting across a curve in the windshield shape. For example...
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...you could cut along these two red lines just as if the whole windshield were flat, because it -is- flat where you're cutting it. Then you could throw away the middle piece and join the two remaining halves with a rubber split windshield joiner gasket (hey, I don't know what to call it) and some urethane windshield mounting goop, and you'd have a curved windshield of an appropriate width for a Locost.
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Here's a fuzzy photo of that RSWJG stuff in action, from my Lalo body topic. I had to buy 50 feet of it to get any of it, so if you decide to go the split windshield route, I have some gasket left over.