Re: 49-50 Windshield shades???

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2023/11/11 15:37:01

I've never seen anything that shape and it doesn't say how it attaches. My May'49 issue 23 parts list, marked "preliminary" has no section for accessories nor do they show elsewhere. Maybe a later version.

I can recall those clip on the sunshade dark plastic ones, that you flipped down when it wasn't that bright and needed to see but sunscreen was in the way. But don't recall when, what they were on/for back then. Universal? I was not too P swavvy then. We used to read J.C.Whitney catalogues for entertainment so maybe they were in there.
I know the Biarritz had a green plastic center insert right in the shade, that was replaceable, now unobtainium, so many solutions to this issue. Most of them after a while kept flopping down and repeated tightening often stripped the threads. I'd opt for an external visor. They don't make them like that anymore so you'll stand out and quite good for driving. Never caught on. Now we have cheapo and not so cheapo tactical "military grade" sunglasses.