Cars with original Duvall windshields

I've always wandered how many original George Duvall windshields were made and used in the 40's, 50's. Here are the ones I have seem in pics and books...

The first....



Doane Spencers very famous deuce



Eddie Dye roadster...



Wes Collins '34



Tommy the Greeks '36..

 

More...







Built in the late 60's early 70's possibly Tommy the greeks old car...





No info on this one...

 

Dang!!! Love this!!!

 

What car is that? It's perfect.

 

1949-50 as a highboy BVille car and mid 50's as a street roadster....my uncles car....

 

The Kurtis built Tommy Lee Speedster had one


Eugene Von Arx special, Duvall screen.

 

Period Pic from around 1952.

 

Doane had this '31 touring as early as 1939 and fitted it with one of the first windshields....

 

Check out this thread for more info... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=458423

 

Looks like the Monty Python guy is driving it

 

Stillrunners and Jimmy B, I don't think those are Duvalls.

 

Yep, John Cleese to be sure..............

 

Frank Kurtis (who did a lot of stuff with George DuVall ) used them on his "Sport" and they continued to be used on Muntz Jets throughout the entire production run of 225 cars from 1949 through 1953. Here's Frank with a "Sport". Might be the only cars to originally come from the factory with DuVall windshields? I don't know...

 

I believe there is a whole article on this in the recent Rod & Custom Little Pages... I'll check tonight when I'm home from work.

Edit... Never mind, it was the history of the Hallock windshields

 

Where did the "DuVall" windshield start? Original installation?

 

True, the ones I posted are not what is considered a Duvall windshield these days though George Duvall did make the windshield on the the Tommy Lee speedster. I am 90% sure Von Arx Special windshield was done by Duvall too I can't find the info , these are from around 1936-39.

 

I can see some similarities in the center post, down low. On the Kurtis too.

 

If George DuVall made the windshield, how could it not be considered an original DuVall?

 

Southern California Plating's 1935 Ford

 

George Duvall was customizing cars in the early 30's. Here is his car around '32-33 with possibly the first windshield he designed....




He went to work for So Cal Plating and did some trucks...

 

Not sure if he did this one but looks very similiar....from the Kurtis Kraft book...

 

Man, it looks like Socal Plating spent more time building delivery trucks than it did chroming parts!

 

More of George's work...

 

This one's Atlas Plating.

 

Wow John where did you find that photo?? Ive been wondering what that truck looked like for years....

 

Rod & Custom, Jun '70, pg 68, in the R&C Time Tunnel column, caption reads:

"Look close...before your eyes is perhaps the strangest mix and match Ford assemblage ever to come down the pike. Front fenders and shell unmistakably '34...interesting, eh what, when you consider it's mated to a '29 roadster (or touring?) back half. Atlas Plating custom must've given Mines Field bashes added interest."

 

Under my nose all this time. I have 2 of those issues. Frank Kurtis is credited for building it in the Kurtis Kraft book. They mistakenly say it's a customized 34 ford roadster. I think the photo is in 1936, but can't see the license plate clearly. Kurtis and Duvall were good friends working on some really cool stuff in those days....

 

Black on yellow with the lettering across the top makes it a '34 plate. And here's the results for the Mines Field race.

 

That era of racing is fantastic. Here's a link to some photos... http://speedandkustom.com/Flyers/index.php/topic,64.0.html

 

Could be - I'll ask him tonight and see if he remembers. His roadster started out as a cabroilet ( he said he got that body alot cheaper than a roadster body ) - hence the need for a new windsheild.