i'm looking for help makeing these for me

[BigBlockSam]

hi guys,  i want to put these on my tona , i'm also installing a roll cage . i know there's not much to these but i'd like to find someone to make them for me . i will mount the rear ones with screws and mount the windshield ones with magnets . so i can remove them if i have to . i'm talking about the metal strips that hold the windshield  on nascar cars . here's a picture . i don't like the way these are mounted . i would do mine straight up and done .

[Indygenerallee]

Rene, Let me know if you find something that works good I want to do the same thing to my Daytona, I was going to try to find some straight stainless trim off some other car (side door trim would be long enough)

[richRTSE]

Popular Hotrodding did a Laguna with these a few years ago...just found it online...click "next" on the photo to see all the pictures, about 3 or 4...not sure if this is the exact look you're shooting for, but it seems easy enough to make your own this way...

http://www.popularhotrodding.com/tech/0904phr_1975_chevy_laguna_parts_accessories/photo_47.html

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Mike Musto's Angrier Daytona has those....maybe he can chime in & say who made them?

[moparstuart]

wayne has them on the 99 hemi daytona to

 

[Aero426]

For the ultimate in realism, drill through your plexiglas rear window.     They are made from aluminum strip.  There is one on each side of the rear glass.   The outer one is wrapped in electrical tape.

[cdr]

go to home depot ,they sell alum strips,cut & bend

[oldcarnut]

go to home depot ,they sell alum strips,cut & bend

Seems easy enough to make    If I had a window to model off of I do it for ya.  Or you could just send your car over for a while and Ill use it 

[kab69440]

For the ultimate in realism, drill through your plexiglas rear window.     They are made from aluminum strip.  There is one on each side of the rear glass.   The outer one is wrapped in electrical tape.

That doesn't look real at all. What good is it if the strip doesn't get screwed into the body? Isn't the entire point of them to keep the window from blowing out of the car at speed like happened to my car way back when?  For whatever it is worth, I grabbed some stainless longitudinals from a roof rack to make a set from. I've never actually made them, but that is what I'll use when I do.

[wingcarenvy]

They are pretty simple to make. When you go to the metal supply store get aluminum strap thats one inch wide. All you have to do is bend the ends and cut to length. When buying aluminum remember that the lower the number the easier it is to bend. For instance 6061 aluminum will not bend it breaks, where as 3003 bends very nicely and is still very strong. Go .120 thick on the strap too.

[DonC1]

 

[BS27ROB]

For the ultimate in realism, drill through your plexiglas rear window.     They are made from aluminum strip.  There is one on each side of the rear glass.   The outer one is wrapped in electrical tape.

That doesn't look real at all. What good is it if the strip doesn't get screwed into the body? Isn't the entire point of them to keep the window from blowing out of the car at speed like happened to my car way back when?  For whatever it is worth, I grabbed some stainless longitudinals from a roof rack to make a set from. I've never actually made them, but that is what I'll use when I do.

I think that is a picture from his real vintage race car. An aluminum strip inside and outside with the rear window sandwiched in between would keep the window from blowing out without being screwed into the body.

[held1823]

For the ultimate in realism, drill through your plexiglas rear window.     They are made from aluminum strip.  There is one on each side of the rear glass.   The outer one is wrapped in electrical tape.

That doesn't look real at all. What good is it if the strip doesn't get screwed into the body? Isn't the entire point of them to keep the window from blowing out of the car at speed like happened to my car way back when?  For whatever it is worth, I grabbed some stainless longitudinals from a roof rack to make a set from. I've never actually made them, but that is what I'll use when I do.

I think that is a picture from his real vintage race car. An aluminum strip inside and outside with the rear window sandwiched in between would keep the window from blowing out without being screwed into the body.

bingo.

it doesn't get much more real, than the real thing.

[kab69440]

I think that is a picture from his real vintage race car. An aluminum strip inside and outside with the rear window sandwiched in between would keep the window from blowing out without being screwed into the body.

"Ahhhh... So I see..." said the blind man.

[Aero426]

Yes there is material on both sides of the glass, at least that is how it was done on this car.    The inside material is like aluminum channel.   It has some foam rubber between it and the glass.   Then the outer strap material which is thinner and wrapped with the electrical tape.   

What you can't see in the photo are a couple of trim screws drilled through the rear window trim  to hold it to the body.   

[kab69440]

Is that a glass backlight or Lexan? If glass, how did they drill through it without breaking it?

[Indygenerallee]

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[Indygenerallee]

Is that a glass backlight or Lexan? If glass, how did they drill through it without breaking it?

drill through your plexiglas rear window.

[Aero426]

The original race car back windows are made of Plexiglas.

[BigBlockSam]

thanks guys the pics helped a lot . now that i see them close up i think i can make them . maybe out of stainless to match the trim . i like the ones on Mikes car . i have pics of mike's car but he doesn't have them in those pics .
i'm playing race car with my tona . 

[Finn]

Magnets from old computer harddrives would work well for sticking them.

[DAY CLONA]

Mike Musto's Angrier Daytona has those....maybe he can chime in & say who made them?

I made the Stainless window straps for Musto's car from 1" X 1/8" thick 304 Stainless Steel, to get the bends very sharp to follow the trim and roofline and allow the straps to sit on the glass flat, I would use various steel plates of different thickness in a standard hydraulic H frame press to bend and shape the required offsets in the Stainless, a metal brake produces too soft a radius, Mike wanted the straps to be flush with the glass, trim and body, no gaps

Mike

[BigBlockSam]

thanks Mike, found the metal on ebay . this should work out good



http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-8-x-1-304-Stainless-Steel-Flat-Bar-48-Long-/160751385886?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256d877d1e

[BigBlockSam]

anybody know the length of the vega window that we use on our daytona's ? mines not here and i want  to order thre metal

[pettybird]

We have strips on the Marty car, and they're double side foam taped in place from one end to the other.  I'm sure that's how Wayne's are. as well.