M38 non-folding windshield question

warsawillys · Post by **warsawillys** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:35 am

The driver side of the windshield of my 1951 M38 has a fixed bracket instead of a hinge but here is a hinge on the passenger side. So the windshield cannot fold down. It is not a vertical windshield such as on an arctic top M38. It doesn't look like a hack job repair. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Don

MODIFIED · Post by **MODIFIED** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:55 am

pics would help...

Post by **wesk** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:55 am

Could be anything, a service mod or post service Bubba mod. Not a Willys thing though. Whomever and for whatever reason it was not a smart move. Since one side was still free to hinge it could easily have resulted in a broken glass. For this reason I lean towards a Bubba mod.

warsawillys · Post by **warsawillys** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:31 pm

It is weird to have one side fixed and the other free to move so Wes is probably right. But whoever the Bubba was, he did a neat job of cutting off the pivot on the end of the windshield frame and welding on a rectangular bracket.

Thanks for the insight. This web site and forum are awesome!

kendak · Post by **kendak** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:11 pm

probably a good thing you can't lay it over ....the GPW that I had when I was a kid would break the windshield almost every time you hit a bump when you had the windshield laid over evan with the latches on

Post by **wesk** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:15 am

Another possibility is Bubba got the windshield cheap because someone already cut off the left arm. So your Bubba had what you see as his solution to employ a cheap incomplete windshield.