@CaseysCustoms what about using 2 windshields from slightly newer chevys (like a 53) where they went 1 piece, cut both long and you keep your centre join but with 2 wider pieces that surely are close to the right shape ✌️
Look for a windshield about the right width from any car/truck and integrate that window frame/windshield into your body. I have seen this done for widened MGBs using a US 60s pickup truck windshield. If it is one piece you could make a fake divider for it if that's a big part of the look you're going for.
I had the same idea, I think this would be a super unique thing that nobody's done on TH-cam. On top of that you could measure the width that you need and then ask your viewers to post the width of their windshields and of what they're off. It would be like crowdsourcing your build. 66 c10 about 67"
Hey Casey, I love your 50 Chevy project. The only thought I have for your windshield delema is using two '54 windshields and cut them 4" long on oposite sides. Since they are one peice you would still have a seam in the middle. Just a thought. Keep up the awsome content. Dale.
This was my thought, a early 50’s Olds is one piece, and sits in the existing corners. Overlap in the middle, to counter the roll or crown of the glass, you could tuck the sides back a little farther than original, helping with the v-butt.
Hi Casey. Use hard coated scratch resistant Polycarbonate for the windows. Add a ceramic coating or twoo & you're golden! Cheers. Leigh in Scotland 🏴
use two front windows to make one. take one window and at the center point cut it 3inches to the left of center and then on the other cut it 3inches to the right. that will allow the window to line up and the sides and then it will allow the center of the window to be covered by the trim
Measure width needed in glass Then find glass with the length and Curve needed from car in junkyard Then build your frame around new glass. 60’s 70’s glass wider
Cut the windshield surround, and add 2 pillars to the outside of the center glass 1 in the middle. Try to find a Pontiac waterfall hood trim to fill the center. It should all line up and look mint! 👌
Cassey, for the windshields, look into R.V. Camper windshield. Class A R.V. windshields have curves in them. I think maybe a Ford Class B windshield could work if you widened the front and rear windshields. You just have to cut them down to hight and with. An 1989 Internation cab over tractor truck windshield might work too. Another idea is finding two front and rear windshields each and cut them to fit the side and use the straight pieces for the center pieces with two dividers between the curve and straight pieces. You can cut both front windshields to center. Fill the gap with clear silicon and a center devider. The rear window would have two deviders.
Man I love watching these videos gives me inspiration to build kb6 international cab. getting out of the woods piece by piece I have a frame ready for it but the cab needs alot of body work. I learn alot watching Casey's customs
I am definitely of the opinion of widening the windshield. You may be able to find a windshield from a car of that same era that is close to the size you need and you can try widening the frame, but shrinking the part where the window actually sits. Plus you may be able to keep that trim down the middle like it currently does. But keep up the great work man!
How about taking a trip to the junk yard with a tape measure... there is bound to be a 50s car with a wider screen and a similar curve. Harvest the whole area Screen and surround and make your life easier.
Ditch the factory windshield frame, since it doesn't fit at all. Use complete custom lexon windshield. My buddy did on his 55 Chevy pickup. He thought it would yellow/fog and need replaced every 6 months but it still looked good after several years. Lexon isn't solid, so you can easily give it a slight curve. He held in place with sheet metal screws (oh he did this because a factory replacement windshield was like a thousand bucks. Actually I think it was plexiglass and only cost like under 50 bucks)
Everything you build is very cool but something about this car really does it for me!! It's absolutely SICK!! I don't love those wheels but everything else is just so cool!
i love this one.....i can see the potential in this car built on a rebadged aussie muscle car......I was getting bored with the floppy framed rust-bucket camaro.....thanks Casey
You do some crazy s#*t, but I love it. Your imagination is on another level. The swaps you do are great and show that nearly anything is possible. Keep up the great work!!
i know its not the caseys customs way lol but i believe when its done it look sweet in a candy red with white roof keep up the good vids they make me happy every time u post one
Regarding the windshield, if you got a split screen surround from a late 40’s early 50’s car that used flat glass you could widen it easily and just get two pieces of flat glass cut to fit the new dimensions. . Custom guys often do this when chopping these 49-54 GM’s , saves the hassle and expense of cutting the curved glass windshield when doing a top chop .
Casey,,for the rear window, you should look into using the rear glass from the 55-57 chevys as i believe they are wider. Another thought is using the rear windows(three pieces) from a 57 Oldsmobile Super 88.
Casey, I have an Idea on how to fill the center gap in the hood and the truck. 1952 Pontiac Chieftain used either a stainless steel or chrome waterfall style accent that went down the center of the hood and truck. Which would help tie the Pontiac G8 to the outside body line.
I saw on some custom car show years ago that the guy needed a custom piece of glass so he brought the original to a windshield place they found a windshield with the proper curve and was able to cut the windshield down to fit the car
Maybe pull the door tops in slightly at the front so they're on a slight angle meeting the windshield? Not sure is this would actually work or not though. Looking great!👍
BOOM HS! 🤣 fps doug never gets old. I would of just plated over the front framerails to box it in and overlap onto the bar. Flat glass the windshield, use a old truck split window frame or something and weld it overtop of the curved stuff. As for the back window I'd just move it back and shorten the deck plate to align the ribbon body line
Use the frame of the windshield to match the A pillar. Change the cowl and make it so you can put you own straight glass in it. After you chop the top it wouldn’t look out of place.
The trunk hinges DO need to move out, because when you split the trunk lid in the middle, the hinges will spread. So when you cut the bottom outside pieces of the back window frame, include the hinges. That will make the filler piece straighter as well.
Since the windshield is split down the middle anyway so what if it has 2 center posts with a flat rectangle between. I think the determining factor there is whether the center split is flat from top to bottom so the center glass is flat too. The C-pillars being wide doesn't really matter too much.
Have you ever tried to leave the A pillars in with the original front window on the donor body and graf the old bodies to the newer front glass it would be less work i would think. Just use the part of the A pillar on the 50s car that the door seals to and graft it to the A pillar to the newer car just cut the door seal out of it and just cover the top to the shape you need.
Re: widening windshield. Some of the senior GM windshields (Olds, Buick) of that body style were one piece. Maybe getting two of them, cutting both to get the needed width, them using the Chevy two piece center strip to join them would work.
Casey, widen the windshield frame to fit the original A-pillar and have a new one piece curved windshield cut down from a more modern car. There are good glass people who can do this. I’m hoping this car comes out as a canyon carving monster!
Good build for a plexiglass racing strip/engine window/moonroof/burglar selection trunk slit. Very impractical but would look awesome. Lol. The vertical gap each side of the grill might fit an air vent from the g8 bumper.While you should get away with not widening the back window, the front won't look right if you widen the a pillars the amount it is going to need.
Casey I've got a few questions: 1. The rear window package tray. Are you going to cut it down so you can put the G8's back seats in? 2. Wouldn't it be easier to do the chop before you put the roof back together? You have a very good start to the 1950 Chevy project.
1. Yes plan on using the g8 rear seats so I’m gonna have to cut that down a lot lol. 2. Not really, with a chop you want to have as few pieces as possible (just more room for error) so if i chopped it now without anything being together i would easily have 25-30 pieces to fit instead of 6-7. Not only that but bringing the roof down in one piece helps finalize the vision i want with the chop, if i was just holding up one section of the roof at a time it would be hard to get a good “look” at it. If that makes sense lol
Casey you should definitely just make it like a convertible cruiser would be badass get rid of the door glasses and make it all slick across the top would be awsome
Firstly mate, love your work and keep it up. Secondly why not make it a split screen like a combi, get 2 stock windshields and cut them to size and use a thin strip of chrome to cover the joint.
*You already know the answer to fitting the windshield Casey, you are going to have to section it in so it looks right and either use lexan or find another windshield that will work*
Widen the front windshield frame, keep the center frame for a seam. Find two windshields, cut each one to where the extra length is in the center, cover the seam with the factory trim...🤠
If anyone is interested, the pontiac g8 was designed and built in Australia with an American engine. It is a Holden commodore SS. It is also available in a wagon and ute (pickup) ✌️
This could be my favorite series, at first i thought you had a GTO chassis then I remembers the G8 Sedan, I had a 2015 SS from Australia with an LSA Supercharger and it was a beast. You should search for an LSA to put on this thing. And I alway like the 50 Chevy cars and trucks. No idea it was so narrow. Give it a sleek long, Right. Great concept, Dennis Thinking can you widen the hood on the sides instead of the center. And add a A Pillar glass corner so you have 2 thin A Pillars split by a flat glass that gives you visibility with a wide pillar. Good Luck. D
For the windshield, try and get 2, one piece windshields for the 1st year they switched on that model, and cut one end off each one. One left and one right. Leave them long of corse.
Casey, another vehicle that comes to mind is a 53 chrysler new yorker back window. it is a 3 piece with just a small trim line between the 3 pieces. It may work for the back, or maybe even for the front with some trimming??
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@CaseysCustoms what about using 2 windshields from slightly newer chevys (like a 53) where they went 1 piece, cut both long and you keep your centre join but with 2 wider pieces that surely are close to the right shape ✌️
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Look for a windshield about the right width from any car/truck and integrate that window frame/windshield into your body. I have seen this done for widened MGBs using a US 60s pickup truck windshield. If it is one piece you could make a fake divider for it if that's a big part of the look you're going for.
I was just about to say almost the exact same thing , Casey listen to this guy!
I had the same idea, I think this would be a super unique thing that nobody's done on TH-cam. On top of that you could measure the width that you need and then ask your viewers to post the width of their windshields and of what they're off. It would be like crowdsourcing your build. 66 c10 about 67"
I was going to say this but I'm not fast enough. Any junkyard should have something you can use
Yeah I was wondering if a tri-5 chevy windshield would have similar curves but be wide enough also.
same thought here... find another vehicle with a windshield that is "closer" and graft that in
Hey Casey, I love your 50 Chevy project. The only thought I have for your windshield delema is using two '54 windshields and cut them 4" long on oposite sides. Since they are one peice you would still have a seam in the middle. Just a thought. Keep up the awsome content. Dale.
This was my thought, a early 50’s Olds is one piece, and sits in the existing corners. Overlap in the middle, to counter the roll or crown of the glass, you could tuck the sides back a little farther than original, helping with the v-butt.
How about a donor windshield off something wide enough?? With the frame part holding the glass.(donor)
Hi Casey. Use hard coated scratch resistant Polycarbonate for the windows. Add a ceramic coating or twoo & you're golden! Cheers. Leigh in Scotland 🏴
A 55 Pontiac hood stainless piece would look good
use two front windows to make one. take one window and at the center point cut it 3inches to the left of center and then on the other cut it 3inches to the right. that will allow the window to line up and the sides and then it will allow the center of the window to be covered by the trim
That does look pretty effin cool 😎
Measure width needed in glass
Then find glass with the length and
Curve needed from car in junkyard
Then build your frame around new glass. 60’s 70’s glass wider
It really blows me away how much work you get done by yourself. Major Props🤜🤛
I think 2 54 windshields without the splint in the middle would work for that front windshield and cut them to fit
"Let's cut some shit." Has to be made into a sticker because it's borderline your catch phrase
Good call! I would totally buy a "lets cut some shit" Caseys Customs tshirt
Oooo with Pure precision and a sledge hammer on the back! 🤪🤪
He has a let's cut some shit shirt
Breath Cassy! Lol it's coming along great thanks for sharing with us.
Those wheels actually look good on that.
Cut the windshield surround, and add 2 pillars to the outside of the center glass 1 in the middle.
Try to find a Pontiac waterfall hood trim to fill the center.
It should all line up and look mint! 👌
Cassey, for the windshields, look into R.V. Camper windshield. Class A R.V. windshields have curves in them. I think maybe a Ford Class B windshield could work if you widened the front and rear windshields. You just have to cut them down to hight and with. An 1989 Internation cab over tractor truck windshield might work too. Another idea is finding two front and rear windshields each and cut them to fit the side and use the straight pieces for the center pieces with two dividers between the curve and straight pieces. You can cut both front windshields to center. Fill the gap with clear silicon and a center devider. The rear window would have two deviders.
Don’t pancake the hood ✋❌, it looks 👀 great how it is and wide the windshield ✅
widen the center pillar a little and split the rest of the widening between both sides.
Take this car down the belt Hwy like I did 30 years ago man. I doubt people still go cruising on the weekends. Nice work brotha
Casey. I salute you sir. One of the best builds I ever seen💯👍I love it. Can't wait to see it finished.
Get it done brother. Thanks for sharing
-Spanky
You'll get it figured out, you always do! That's going to be a killer build! 😎👍
The front does look good, well done.
leave the bubble hood looks freaking awesome keep it as stock as possible would love to drive that car down to the lonestar round up one day
Man I love watching these videos gives me inspiration to build kb6 international cab. getting out of the woods piece by piece I have a frame ready for it but the cab needs alot of body work. I learn alot watching Casey's customs
This one’s gonna be sick already coming together nicely
So glad you started working on this! Infinitely cooler project than the Crapmaro! Rock on Bro! 😊👍
I am definitely of the opinion of widening the windshield. You may be able to find a windshield from a car of that same era that is close to the size you need and you can try widening the frame, but shrinking the part where the window actually sits. Plus you may be able to keep that trim down the middle like it currently does. But keep up the great work man!
And let's not forget very rarely you see a finished project. Love it❤
A big metal jigsaw puzzle! I love it
Dam Casey I’m glad I found your channel you really do make the baddest rides on the planet.
This build is dope. The stance is clean
How about taking a trip to the junk yard with a tape measure... there is bound to be a 50s car with a wider screen and a similar curve. Harvest the whole area Screen and surround and make your life easier.
I said the same.
I was thinking the same thing.
Taking shape casey great job looking forward to more content
Ditch the factory windshield frame, since it doesn't fit at all.
Use complete custom lexon windshield. My buddy did on his 55 Chevy pickup. He thought it would yellow/fog and need replaced every 6 months but it still looked good after several years. Lexon isn't solid, so you can easily give it a slight curve. He held in place with sheet metal screws (oh he did this because a factory replacement windshield was like a thousand bucks. Actually I think it was plexiglass and only cost like under 50 bucks)
so glad you're going to chop it!
Got damn do I love chassis swaps.
Amazing work, you motivated me to build my dream truck from scratch!
Everything you build is very cool but something about this car really does it for me!! It's absolutely SICK!! I don't love those wheels but everything else is just so cool!
Love how this one's coming together man
Yea Casey, Dam You & Brent From Halfass Custom Do Amazing Car Art!! GREAT WORK Buddy!!🤗
Great build Casey, it is really coming together. I would split it use a flat center and just have two skinny center posts. I think it will look cool!
It's awesome Casey!
i love this one.....i can see the potential in this car built on a rebadged aussie muscle car......I was getting bored with the floppy framed rust-bucket camaro.....thanks Casey
This is a wild build and I am enjoying watching it come together.
Maybe do the Pontiac Chieftain Waterfall on the hood? Sort of a "feature it" approach to the hood. You're on your own with the rest of the widening
Coming together nicely
This ones coming together fast! Killer job Casey
Looking Good! Glad to hear you are going to chop it.
You do some crazy s#*t, but I love it. Your imagination is on another level. The swaps you do are great and show that nearly anything is possible. Keep up the great work!!
It's looking really good
i know its not the caseys customs way lol but i believe when its done it look sweet in a candy red with white roof keep up the good vids they make me happy every time u post one
Casey Widen the frame, get another windshield, then cut them both so each side is longer then join them in the center
Regarding the windshield, if you got a split screen surround from a late 40’s early 50’s car that used flat glass you could widen it easily and just get two pieces of flat glass cut to fit the new dimensions. . Custom guys often do this when chopping these 49-54 GM’s , saves the hassle and expense of cutting the curved glass windshield when doing a top chop .
Casey,,for the rear window, you should look into using the rear glass from the 55-57 chevys as i believe they are wider. Another thought is using the rear windows(three pieces) from a 57 Oldsmobile Super 88.
Casey, I have an Idea on how to fill the center gap in the hood and the truck. 1952 Pontiac Chieftain used either a stainless steel or chrome waterfall style accent that went down the center of the hood and truck. Which would help tie the Pontiac G8 to the outside body line.
Butterfly the hood. Looking good!
For the windshield get another window frame for the door pillars then use a standard window frame and make fill in panels on the side
17:47 “ you said man that looks cool” you lost out on perfect moment brother
I saw on some custom car show years ago that the guy needed a custom piece of glass so he brought the original to a windshield place they found a windshield with the proper curve and was able to cut the windshield down to fit the car
Maybe pull the door tops in slightly at the front so they're on a slight angle meeting the windshield? Not sure is this would actually work or not though. Looking great!👍
This project will be really cool, following your videos here in Rio de Janeiro.
Looking great 👍
BOOM HS! 🤣 fps doug never gets old. I would of just plated over the front framerails to box it in and overlap onto the bar. Flat glass the windshield, use a old truck split window frame or something and weld it overtop of the curved stuff. As for the back window I'd just move it back and shorten the deck plate to align the ribbon body line
Use the frame of the windshield to match the A pillar. Change the cowl and make it so you can put you own straight glass in it. After you chop the top it wouldn’t look out of place.
Hell yeah my brother 🔥 🙌
Loving your channel bro!
I like Your style, I have a 51 chevy coupe, project on hold. Your 49 is radical.
The trunk hinges DO need to move out, because when you split the trunk lid in the middle, the hinges will spread. So when you cut the bottom outside pieces of the back window frame, include the hinges. That will make the filler piece straighter as well.
Three piece windshield would be sick!
Definitely split it. The curves matching on the metal and keeping the thin pillars is gonna look way better Casey!
Another awesome Video!!!
One day I'll do this
Since the windshield is split down the middle anyway so what if it has 2 center posts with a flat rectangle between. I think the determining factor there is whether the center split is flat from top to bottom so the center glass is flat too.
The C-pillars being wide doesn't really matter too much.
Have you ever tried to leave the A pillars in with the original front window on the donor body and graf the old bodies to the newer front glass it would be less work i would think. Just use the part of the A pillar on the 50s car that the door seals to and graft it to the A pillar to the newer car just cut the door seal out of it and just cover the top to the shape you need.
I’ve seen it done and I’ve never liked how it looks. Makes it look like an “old car body kit” to me. But that’s just my opinion
On the windshield take the center piece out before you widen it up and then put it back in the center when you get it widen up
I was wondering when you'd finally get back to working on this thing it's a cool build
You should make the hood open like a shell, like how it is in the vid!
Re: widening windshield. Some of the senior GM windshields (Olds, Buick) of that body style were one piece. Maybe getting two of them, cutting both to get the needed width, them using the Chevy two piece center strip to join them would work.
I love this car
The 2 pieces of trim could work and look really cool with the right pinstripe design on the hood
Awesome!
Casey, widen the windshield frame to fit the original A-pillar and have a new one piece curved windshield cut down from a more modern car. There are good glass people who can do this. I’m hoping this car comes out as a canyon carving monster!
Looking good👍🏾👏🏾
Looking good.
Good build for a plexiglass racing strip/engine window/moonroof/burglar selection trunk slit. Very impractical but would look awesome. Lol. The vertical gap each side of the grill might fit an air vent from the g8 bumper.While you should get away with not widening the back window, the front won't look right if you widen the a pillars the amount it is going to need.
Casey I've got a few questions: 1. The rear window package tray. Are you going to cut it down so you can put the G8's back seats in? 2. Wouldn't it be easier to do the chop before you put the roof back together? You have a very good start to the 1950 Chevy project.
1. Yes plan on using the g8 rear seats so I’m gonna have to cut that down a lot lol.
2. Not really, with a chop you want to have as few pieces as possible (just more room for error) so if i chopped it now without anything being together i would easily have 25-30 pieces to fit instead of 6-7. Not only that but bringing the roof down in one piece helps finalize the vision i want with the chop, if i was just holding up one section of the roof at a time it would be hard to get a good “look” at it. If that makes sense lol
cool video, maybe another windshield cut out of a car from the scrap yard?
Casey you should definitely just make it like a convertible cruiser would be badass get rid of the door glasses and make it all slick across the top would be awsome
Firstly mate, love your work and keep it up. Secondly why not make it a split screen like a combi, get 2 stock windshields and cut them to size and use a thin strip of chrome to cover the joint.
Cut the glass at both ends just past the curve and put a huge middme piece in. Still a 3 piece but 2 small ends and 1 big one in the middle.
*You already know the answer to fitting the windshield Casey, you are going to have to section it in so it looks right and either use lexan or find another windshield that will work*
Widen the front windshield frame, keep the center frame for a seam. Find two windshields, cut each one to where the extra length is in the center, cover the seam with the factory trim...🤠
I knew a guy who did this with a widened s10 he built , it worked out well .
If anyone is interested, the pontiac g8 was designed and built in Australia with an American engine. It is a Holden commodore SS. It is also available in a wagon and ute (pickup) ✌️
This build is cool as in Australia it’s a ve ss commodore. I have the 2008 one of these can’t wait to see more on this
Make a pop out center window like a safari window.
...you are hillarryus...love it!
This could be my favorite series, at first i thought you had a GTO chassis then I remembers the G8 Sedan, I had a 2015 SS from Australia with an LSA Supercharger and it was a beast. You should search for an LSA to put on this thing. And I alway like the 50 Chevy cars and trucks. No idea it was so narrow. Give it a sleek long, Right. Great concept, Dennis Thinking can you widen the hood on the sides instead of the center. And add a A Pillar glass corner so you have 2 thin A Pillars split by a flat glass that gives you visibility with a wide pillar. Good Luck. D
For the windshield, try and get 2, one piece windshields for the 1st year they switched on that model, and cut one end off each one. One left and one right. Leave them long of corse.
Casey, another vehicle that comes to mind is a 53 chrysler new yorker back window. it is a 3 piece with just a small trim line between the 3 pieces. It may work for the back, or maybe even for the front with some trimming??