Daytona coupe rear screen.

[Daytona Dek]

Update. Phoned Uro Glass today the company that made the glass rear screen on the Dax Daytona I saw previously and had a very long chat about the process. They are about 65 miles from me so not too far and very helpful. Basically a 6mm frame is made in the shape of the periphery and the glass is heated to 650 degrees C and gravity is used to form the shape. Mass produced glass is press bent. This seems to be the most expensive bit 4,800 euros (more or less the same as a British pound now). A minimum order of 25 is required unless they put it through as experimental then they might be able to go down to 15. The base price of each unit is about 2,200 euros/pounds. Then there is the cost of the obscuration band which is silk printed which allows bonding to the host car frame. Also a choice of toughened/laminated/heated at more cost. As I suspected the only way to bring the cost down is to increase the numbers which will dramatically reduce the frame cost down but have a much lesser effect on the rest. He also talked about the weight which was interesting. 1mm thick glass weighs 2.5 kg (about 5.5pounds) per square meter (about 10.7 square feet). So 5mm thick glass is 12.5kg per square meter. You can appreciate the weight saving on original racers!
His sales manager is also a petrol head and doesn’t live to far from me so is going to call in to look at the car and rear screen. So as I suspected low volume = increased cost. Don’t know if there would be any interest on your side of the pond to increase numbers? But that would depend on number of SV Daytonas you have. Perhaps I should contact Dana. Anyone any idea of the approximate cost of a plexiglass version to make a comparison.
Merry Christmas (Thanks Giving) to you all!
Dek