Red River Chapter Tech Session, "Remove That Windshield"!
January 26, 2020, Wylie, Texas

The Red River Chapter of the Solid Axle Corvette Club held a tech seminar
on how to remove a C-1 windshield correctly.

It was a nice winter day in the Dallas area, and a good group of members and guests
learned how to avoid pitfalls when it unfortunately comes time to replace the
windshield on a C-1.

As chapter president Bill Preston and tech advisor John Spencer noted, "This is a tedious job 
that is not for amateurs.

At 10AM the chapter convened on John Spencer's garage for a most informative tech session.

As you can see, there were some very nice cars parking there.

Here's the car that is being used as an example.  It is John Spencer's charcoal 1958, and it is 
a sweet car.

John had already unbolted all the tedious bolts, so the windshield with frame was all
ready to be lifted.

This is session was about how to correctly remove the windshield and then the bezel should it need to be replaced.

The windshield on the '58 was removed and taken to this table. 

For orientation, the frame is actually upside-down, showing the 12-24 bolts that hold the frame onto the car.

(L to R) Bill Preston, John Spencer, Tom Jackson.

Now you see the windshield laying on it's back, so to speak.

Removing the windshield from the car is not easy at all.  And removing

the bezel parts is tricky also.  Actually very tricky.

Here's the bottom line:  If you C-1 windshield needs to be replaced, do not take it to an ordinary
auto glass place.  They will not know how to replace it with out doing damage.

As chapter president Bill Preston (second from the right) noted, "whoever invented the Rubic's cube is probably a
descendant of the one who invented the C-1 windshield/frame".