Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:46 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:20 pm
Nope, they're FC
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:22 pm
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:25 pm
pretty sure there '56 chev, i can find out i know the guy that owns it
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:27 pm
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:28 pm
Well, excuse me! 
They've had a big slice taken out of the middle then...........
They've had a big slice taken out of the middle then...........
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:28 pm
may just go with lexan, like i did with the chopped 2 door, only problem i think they closed the loop hole i used to get it regoed 
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:19 pm
FAR OUT THATS WICKED , Chev bar for sure , when I designed that FC model I played with fattening up the bars and it looked way better , that thing would scare my grandmother off the road - love it .
I had a lexan screen also ratbox and I believe the law says if its glass it has to be safety glass "IF"
By that it means I can run no glass .
Just before the nats I drove my ute across town and the cops tailed me for 1 klm or so but didnt pull me up , Got you on a loophole I thought to myself hehe
I had a lexan screen also ratbox and I believe the law says if its glass it has to be safety glass "IF"
By that it means I can run no glass .
Just before the nats I drove my ute across town and the cops tailed me for 1 klm or so but didnt pull me up , Got you on a loophole I thought to myself hehe
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:45 pm
In the 70's I met guy that presented a car for rego with no glass
The inspector refused to pass the car for rego.
The owner then asked him to show where it said in the guidlines where glass had to be fitted. and if glass wasnt a requirement of registration wipers and demisters were not needed.
The inspector could not find any such requirement on glass, he then rang head office who instructed him to pass the car as the owner was correct in his statement.
I know of two customs that have been registered this way, and lexan screens fitted later.
The inspector refused to pass the car for rego.
The owner then asked him to show where it said in the guidlines where glass had to be fitted. and if glass wasnt a requirement of registration wipers and demisters were not needed.
The inspector could not find any such requirement on glass, he then rang head office who instructed him to pass the car as the owner was correct in his statement.
I know of two customs that have been registered this way, and lexan screens fitted later.
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:29 pm
orite 
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:53 pm
With over 30 years of experience chopping roofs on a vast variety of cars from the 20's to the late 70's.
The glass is always an area that makes or breaks the finished job.
Over the years I have been lucky at times and the screen has survived on the first attempt, the most exhausting was breaking nine!
The glass cutters I have used were experienced and there abilities outstanding, but no one is perfect and some days things just dont come out the way you want them.
Over 20 years ago I started having screens manufactured to fit the car I was building.
People will always look at the initial cost of this type of approach as excessivly expensive.
This is not true if looked at from another perspective.
Once the furnace mould has been made the cost of the custom screens made from it are quiet affordable.
And it makes it possible for other people to have chopped cars of the same make and model.
And from many years of driving a custom car broken screens are a way of life, haveing an available replacement is a great feeling after the sad event.
Several years ago I had a request from a customer to chop an FB ute.
I made a fibreglass mould of the front screen and rear corner windows, and then correct screens from the mould in preperation of doing the job.
Unfortunatly the owner changed his mind and sold the ute.
I have contemplated building an FB Nomad based on my old buisness card artwork from ten years ago ( that bears some similarity to the one that was build in QLD a couple of years ago)
If I do 3" chopped laminated screens would be available.
The glass is always an area that makes or breaks the finished job.
Over the years I have been lucky at times and the screen has survived on the first attempt, the most exhausting was breaking nine!
The glass cutters I have used were experienced and there abilities outstanding, but no one is perfect and some days things just dont come out the way you want them.
Over 20 years ago I started having screens manufactured to fit the car I was building.
People will always look at the initial cost of this type of approach as excessivly expensive.
This is not true if looked at from another perspective.
Once the furnace mould has been made the cost of the custom screens made from it are quiet affordable.
And it makes it possible for other people to have chopped cars of the same make and model.
And from many years of driving a custom car broken screens are a way of life, haveing an available replacement is a great feeling after the sad event.
Several years ago I had a request from a customer to chop an FB ute.
I made a fibreglass mould of the front screen and rear corner windows, and then correct screens from the mould in preperation of doing the job.
Unfortunatly the owner changed his mind and sold the ute.
I have contemplated building an FB Nomad based on my old buisness card artwork from ten years ago ( that bears some similarity to the one that was build in QLD a couple of years ago)
If I do 3" chopped laminated screens would be available.
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:00 pm
Ratbox is that Ute thjis one ?
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:02 pm
It belongs to the son of the guy who ownes the black one
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:00 am
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:35 am
1. the loopholes mentioned above are the ones i was speeking about but i think it has recently been closed 
2.yes it's his sons, smooth are you sure the sons ute (purple one) has lexan i was sure it was glass but not 100%
3.paul,i once looked into having glass made, and yes initial cost was expensive i think around $1000, but cutting at around $160 a screen break a couple and $1000 isn't that expensive any more, and i would have owned the mould. are you saying that youhave a mould and can supply already 3" chopped front screens? if so how much?
2.yes it's his sons, smooth are you sure the sons ute (purple one) has lexan i was sure it was glass but not 100%
3.paul,i once looked into having glass made, and yes initial cost was expensive i think around $1000, but cutting at around $160 a screen break a couple and $1000 isn't that expensive any more, and i would have owned the mould. are you saying that youhave a mould and can supply already 3" chopped front screens? if so how much?