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On 24 Sep 2001, at 16:11, Per Lindgren wrote: > The front windshield is NOT made from strengthened glass. That is why > it is laminated instead. If the windshield should be hit by a rock or > similar, it will not shatter in to 1 billion pieces, the reason for > this is that the driver will loose visibility if the window will > shatter. The laminated screen will crack, not shatter and visibility > is maintained. Many older VWs (pre '70 or so) does not have laminated > screens. My 68 Bug is one of them. Laminated safety glass windshields were supplied by VW wherever they were required by law, or where the importer spec'ed it. Non laminated type 3 windshields are in the parts list, so they must have been sold somewhere, but I don't know where. US code has required safety glass windshields since at least the 50s. I don't know when it started. We have some friends who spent a few years in Nigeria in the 70s and there were no safety glass beetle windshields there at that time. They averaged 2 new beetle windshields per year there. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org