1975 FJ40 Windshield glass

[knuckle47]

There are so many “ in the box” as you say around here…I see pickups zooming around the highway with 5 or six windshields in a carrier and speaking to a driver a few weeks ago…the shop calls a local warehouse and within an hour …the glass is delivered for the installer to drop in

 

[steffan]

I’ve been calling all day looking for prices here, best so far is $300. I haven’t committed yet but will post details when it happens

 

[knuckle47]

I’ve been calling all day looking for prices here, best so far is $300. I haven’t committed yet but will post details when it happens

I do the shopping for my wife and I. Frankly, the damn costs at the grocery stores alone is insane and is uncontrolled for this current time frame. a stupid example is an item that sold typically at 5 for $5.00 is now $2.50 each and sold on sale at 4 for $9.00…. GEE! An 80% increase…and that within 9 months. I have been in business for 42 years and had I told ANY of my customers there is a 20% increase in less than a year, they would have left me for anyone else who had product.

I think with the steady flow of news regarding pandemic, jobs, housing, we are like lemmings…we just get in line with the crowd and pay it. I purchased my FJ40 windshield over a year ago…it is still in the box wrapped in 5 yards of bubble wrap. I paid about $250 With shipping….Using this logic, is it possible you're ahead of the game at $300.00

DATA suggests I have 15 years left on the planet…. can I really retire? frankly, I am disgusted with costs so out of control. But, I get in line and pay it….YUK!

Good luck in your search

 

[Augustiron]

Bumping this thread as I am in need of a windshield for my 75.

Which OEM part # do I need?
I see vendors with 2 OEM windshields available ...
one ends in 1975...
the other one starts in 1975...
Build date is April 75, wipers on the bottom

Local guy said $325 green glass cut from the pattern of my old one.

 

[knuckle47]

@Augustiron believe it or not after a few years in the shop my new windshield is installed and fits perfectly. The additional benefit and it is not scarred with little sandpit marks and age. In fact it is crystal clear. If you can get everything resolved at $325, maybe you should just let it be cut and installed, but that is my belief as I get closer to just needing things completed. Sometimes it pays to just go to the easiest route.

My May ‘75 glass was from cruiser corp

 

[brian]

Bumping this thread as I am in need of a windshield for my 75.

Which OEM part # do I need?
I see vendors with 2 OEM windshields available ...
one ends in 1975...
the other one starts in 1975...
Build date is April 75, wipers on the bottom

Local guy said $325 green glass cut from the pattern of my old one.

The later version.
If that 325 is cut and installed, that's not too terrible....its highway robbery however if that's just glass.

 

[pb4ugo]

I recently had a w/s cut and installed on my 75 40. I found a small local glass guy. I gave him my old glass for a pattern and a new gasket from Toyota. He charged a couple of hundred, so in total it was just shy of $300.

 

[brian]

I recently had a w/s cut and installed on my 75 40. I found a small local glass guy. I gave him my old glass for a pattern and a new gasket from Toyota. He charged a couple of hundred, so in total it was just shy of $300.

About the same on my 61 earlier this year.
Old glass as template, I supplied the 2pc weather strip set...$229, cut and installed in the frame i dropped off as well.

 

[timmyisinthewell]

Looks like you'd be top of the list - 56111-90301.

 

[Gotta40]

I recently had one cut for a 77. just took the old one out, dropped it off at a glass shop and a couple days later it was cut. $97. it was a standard glass company for commercial building windows, not an auto shop. easy enough to change it myself.

 

[Jdc1]

It’s flat - about as simple as it gets. Any decent glass shop will be able to make from scratch.

The vent windows with the cutouts for the pulls are a little more involved.

 

[Augustiron]

Copy, thx.

I just resprayed my rig freeborn red, I'm a little hesitant to commit to a green glass windshield as I don't want to look like a Christmas tree.
I have to do some research and see just how green the green is.
I do like the idea of the shade strip at the top edge to keep the sun glare down though.

I'll also research some glass companies down in Reno, as up here in Truckee we have to pay the Truckee tax for everything where things are usually much cheaper 40 minutes down the hill.