Tinted Windshield
Between 1954 an 58 my Dad would buy new wrecked Hudsons and Ambassadors and fix them up like new again. That's how we had a new car every year. One of those cars had a blue tinted windshield. I can not remember if it was a Hudson or Ambassador.
Did Hudson ever come with blue tinted windshield?
I prefered green tint over blue. The appearance of trees along the highway certanly had a different color looking through blue glass.
Lee
Did Hudson ever come with blue tinted windshield?
I prefered green tint over blue. The appearance of trees along the highway certanly had a different color looking through blue glass.
Lee
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I have a 52 Hornet that has blue tint at the top of the windshields. Unfortunately I dissasembled the car years ago and now I can only find one of the windshields. Rob0
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Though tinted glass began in the auto industry just prior to WWII, it became broadly available, standardized and popular in the early '50s. I'm thinking the first offering of it from Hudson was the '52 model year.
Up until the early '60s this tinted glass was green. Accident reports and tests were revealing that overhead traffic signals at intersections when viewed through the green tint would, for some people's eyes, make red stop lights not look red. So the federal law required a change to the blueish tint we have had in all windshield shading bands produced since about 1963. Even if they were making glass for a '52 Hudson in '63, it had to have a blue tint shaded area.
Today it is virtually impossible to find NOS windshields with green shading. The original inventory was used up as well as the original production deteriorating and seperating due to age even just sitting on the racks in warehouses.
One excellent supplier of NOS and reproduction glass that I have used multiple times is Vic Phillips autoglass@acmenet.net This is an individual with 60,000 pieces of glass in his warehouse, not one of the huge impersonal corporations that don't really care about your Hudson. Prices are very good as is service.0 -
StillOutThere wrote:
One excellent supplier of NOS and reproduction glass that I have used multiple times is Vic Phillips autoglass@acmenet.net This is an individual with 60,000 pieces of glass in his warehouse, not one of the huge impersonal corporations that don't really care about your Hudson. Prices are very good as is service.
This URL does not seem to be active at this time!0 -
There really isn't anything at the web page (URL) so I didn't provide it. You needed Vic's email, which I did provide, to get info, although his phone number (does anyone still phone?) is on the web page.
http://www.autoglassclassics.com/0
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