Hello, I am looking for a usable Windshield from a 1954-58? Oldsmobile (or a Pontiac or Buick of same years). The hardtop/convertible is ideal, but I won't be picky.
New ones are like $600 plus $300 in shipping, so you'd probably be somewhere with 1 day driving distance to Sacramento, so I can come pick it up.

It turns out that the BOP cars are about 4in wider windshield than a 56 chevy, and I'm building a custom 56 nomad that I need to widen by 4 inches, so the good news is the BOP windshields are the just the right shape and size, the bad news is they are very hard to find these days. I got two 56 chevy ones for less than $100 each, but now I can't use them! cheers, jack

 

Interesting. A friend is trying to sell a '55 Pontiac two door H.T. and it appears that the roof skin, the trunk lid, and side glass are the same, or very close, as the tri-five Chevy. So the BOP tri five coupes are wider than the Chevy?

 

They are wider than the chevy. The company that makes windshield confirms the windshield is 4-6 inches wider.

 

I don't think it's going to work. Yes, you usually have to widen the roof of the car when you chop it, but the cowl/base of the windshield stays the same. SO a 55-6 windshield will be too wide at the bottom for a Chevy. Get a good metal guy to widen the roof to meet the chopped stock windshield. I have a bit of experience in this...put a Nomad roof on a 56 Olds. Had to widen the top of the Olds roof (Keeping the Olds windshield, of course), and then widen the Nomad one even more where it joined the Olds sheet metal.

 

As someone who has chopped somewhere around 30-40 cars, it's better to cut the glass and work the metal to fit it, than try the other way around. Kustom glass is possible, but at a cost of thousands for the first one, then less for any more. Got a quote years ago from a glass manufacturer in Pittsburg, for 10 grand for the first one. Don't remember how much copies would be.

 

What won't work?? I'm not modifying a nomad. The car is custom scratch built, will look like a 56 nomad.
It will be shorter and wider and the body panels custom fiberglass, the roof carbon fiber.
I'm using a C6 corvette chassis, which is 4in wider and 9in shorter. It will also be an EV, awd with 900hp..

I've also found that a 50's chevy truck windshield might work, it's 6 inch wider, they might be easier to find.

I could narrow the C6, I have to modify the rear diff cradle already for the two electric motors, but the front is a different matter, at minimum I need a new rack-n-pinion.
I could make the body a "widebody" fatten up the fenders, doors, and rear quarters. I'm already making them completely custom, so not that much more work. This might look great, or look terrible, hard to say.
Found someone who mocked up a 57 widebody in a video, I'd do it most stockish than this treatment, but you get what I mean..
I think it will be much easier and better to just use a wider windsheild.

A quote on having a custom windshield made was $4,000 (plus shipping..)

Here is a photo mockup of what I'm thinking it will look like.