Rear and side window glass

[Leif in Calif]

There's another post about  back glass interchanges between GM cars. I just wanted to point out that tempered glass that is curved with a single fairly large radius can now be sourced by your local glass shop (depending on location). It doesn't work for something like a late 50's car that has bends of various radius but if you need the center lite of a three piece back window, or a curved side glass it could be done. Here in California many tempering facilities have the ability to produce bent tempered glass in 1/4 or 3/16 thickness. You would just need to provide a flat pattern or a CAD drawing.  Your local glass shop may not know this is possible...They will need some education. It's still a specialty product, which means that some people will try to really make some money on it, so shop around. 

[58L-Y8]

One of my prized finds 50+ years ago in a group of obsolete auto manuals dumped by a local garage was a glass interchange book covering 1940-1953.  From it I learned which bodies were shared across which makes within each company.  If anyone has a question on an Amercian car in those years, message me here, I'll gladly answer your questions.

[arcticbuicks]

me too....from two separate closed wrecking yards.......body and glass cars and trucks and odd brands back to the 1930s.........and my interest was Canadian models  which is hard to find written material on.