Thread: How to build a Duvall style roadster windshield.

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Holy Mackeral Brian. What a tremendous amount of work you put into this thread. I think Tweedy is paid for and then some.

You may have just saved some prospective Duval owners some big bucks.

Thanks for all the work.

Don

Speedway sells Duvalls for 1k-4k depending on the car model. Gonna bookmark this, I'm going to need this in the future. I like the Duvall look, but not the price.

Nice stuff Brian.

Your skills with CAD - or whatever program it was - really make it easy to follow.

Does the windshield frame turn out sorta heavy?
I'm guessing not since so much of the base metal is cut away.

In any event, it couldn't be heavier than the cast brass ones.

Besides the looking good aspect of it, with the windshield sides going further to the side than a regular roadster windshield, it looks like the occupants are well protected from the wind.
Probably better than the old style flat windshield with windwings....

Actually the frame turns out very light. The one I modelled for this "how to " article is relatively "to scale" and my engineering software can give an exact weight, based on the density of steel being 0.283 pounds per cubic inch---the frame complete weighs 12 pounds (without glass).

Thanks.

I would have guessed twice that.

Surprising too how much glass weighs.

Several years back I built a large hanging on the wall cabinet for Sweetie to display her teapot collection in.
I'd planned to put a glass door on it, but calculating the weight of the glass made it way heavy.

Then I bought some Lexan . . . and used part of it in another project so still no door....

Thanks for the process and pics , can't wait to give it a go on my chev .....Paul.

Thanks for the tutorial!

This thread is 11 yrs old. I remember Brian and enjoyed his posts.