embrace the suck, by embracing the cool factor 
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I’m assuming a notch is cut in the frame to fit the glass, but were they glued in?
Also I’m going to be keeping just the base of the A Pillar, and I’ll figure out a way to mount the new frame from there. I’ll aim for set screws, so I can change out the lexan when it eventually gets scratched up beyond comfort.
@tcholton717 your time is now, I need Rat Rod Knowledge
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I still need to remove the carpet and the rest of the interior and put in the roll cage first.
I’ll stiffen the planned windshield by having tabs welded to the roll cage and windshield to bolt them together. No diving board effect Mickey mouse nonsense in the wind.
Also it will follow the degree angle of the original windshield, it just won’t be curved glass. This should protect the dash from the rain for the most part. I can think up a button rag top later.
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Well, if it were me Cody I’d go with something like a frame made of one inch angle with a center post angled back like a early fifties truck. Lay the plastic in a thin bed of silicone. place half inch angle over the plastic and pop rivet it to the one inch. Then I make some pieces on the angle A pillars that dropped down like frames for vent windows to give extra support. Actually I’d build a frame to land somehow behind the seat that I could put some kind of removable roof panels on.
Did you ever try juggling cody? with all the projects you have in the air right now I bet you would be great at it. I wish I was still young. Well that’s if I didn’t have to go through all the crap again that got me old. From a Bob Dylan song. " Here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price. You have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice."
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Well the roll cage has an upper frame portion, so I’ll have a solid support for a top.
I can’t be satisfied with getting one thing done, projects is all I do for fun.
When I get fed up or stuck on one thing I’ll move back over to where I left a dog ear in the other. I’m sure the people on the Motorized Bicycle Forum are angry I haven’t updated the project for the charcoal bike yet.
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Preaching to the choir Cody. I hate to hit a road block. If I do there is something else started a short ways a way. Of course unlike me you may actually finish something. With the rollcage in place to tie the window frame to you have it made. Now I recommend sticking some fake coil of copper on you gasifier to make it look like a moonshine still. You have dry counties in your state anymore? That would be fun.
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Oh yeah no liquor sold on Sundays here and you can only get it at a bar or ABC store. Beers and wines arent regulated as much.
I already had that question asked at work if it made alcohol as I ran and I was just joking about using charcoal.
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By the way Tom I like the angle iron idea. Super simple.
Might act like a gutter and keep it from spraying rain to my sides.
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Yeah. I saw it before. It think Full Custom Garage. Ian Roussel. I’m getting embarrassed for everyone to know how much time I spend watching these car shows. I’m not a real fan of this show but i liked this truck.
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Consider it research Tom, yeah… Research.
Just to make sure I’m understanding you’re also saying to make it a split window?
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You got in ahead of my revision Cody. Yeah, split window. Angled side to side and back enough to be a little aerodynamic. Anyway if you click the link above or this one and look at Big trucking. That is a nice build.
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I’m not too sure if split window will play nice with my wipers. I am definitely angling it back to match original lean for some aero.
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If I use the right glue I shouldn’t need to bolt down the plexiglass, right? We have sunroof installation sealant I could use at work.
I’m sure just the silicone would be fine. After all the air pressure alone is all from one direction. Windshield wipers? You didn’t mention this was a sissy truck. Hang them from the top like they used to be when trucks were men and bounced their huevos on bench seats with 20 gallons of gas right behind them so that you knew when you got T-boned that there wasn’t going to be a big hospital bill and road kill didn’t just mean a slow racoon. When them computer screened, nut nuzzling, Suri talking back, Gps you down a boat ramp, sorry honey I can’t pick you up tonight because one of my sensors broke and the mechanic with a degree in physics says it’s still on a container ship in a fifty mile queue outside long beach,metro sexual EV chevy drivers is sitting home pouting, you will be ZZ topping it with a hot honey smiling along side you when you have to move her leg to shift. That’s the new world order. I’m no nostradamus but I live in a cold climate and I have seen what happens to a snow flake when the heat is on.
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I’m lazy and don’t wanna move the wipers
Plus johnny law will give me a ticket if he somehow sees lacking wipers.
I can be road legal with no window but wipers? GOTS to have em.
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yeah yeah. Legal. That’s when you switch off the wood gas and hit the nitrous button.
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Law is the same here, and I never got pulled over in my windowless shit boxes have to wear a full face helmet though. Leave the wipers where they are, law here saw you have to have them, doesn’t say they have to be functional. Got pulled over more then once in my 64 f100 farm truck, factory NO WIPERS NO SEAT BELT GAS TANK BEHIND YOUR ASS! Hehe, got lots of pissed off sheriff’s with angry walk away, I win
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Make sure you paint rat rod on the sides. Maybe Johnny law will leave you alone.
Bob
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I’d thought about painting a flame pattern but in reverse.
Brown paint job up front to look like wood grain and then a flame job starting halfway across the door.
I’m still thinking of taking the old bed out, I need the hopper height even if my aerodynamics are already screwed from having no roof to direct the wind away.
Nice part about a new roll cage is the more stuff I weld to it, the stiffer and more supported it will be. I might take some of my diamond plate aluminum to make for a screw on roof top.
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With no roof you will probably not notice any more drag from the hopper, might be less.
Bob
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