GT-II WINDSHIELD UpDate

Newbie here so bare with me.
IF you were to do a mod to the gt2 windshield to a close fitting one it would cost around 1000(fiberglass/windshield/areal paint job/weather sealing) where i live. which is more than buying the original one but if it were to break again or get a hairline split it would only cost 200ish. therefore i would save around 500 bucks every time i had to replace it. i know the scenario sounds unlikely but i'm just putting it out there. thats the way i see it.

OK, Here is the story on Bradley GT 2 Windshields. From 5 years ago.

First the Big Bad News “Viracon” sold off ALL their window & windshield Operations.

Viracon sold their Glass operation to PPG Industries and Guardian. PPG Industries took all the high end large production and Guardian got the left-overs. This person did give me the number to Guardian and a contact name.

Name: Guardian Glass
Street: 2040 Production Drive
Findlay, Oh 45840-5449
Phone: (419) 420-9736

Kevin McMillin 419-209-6332

I called the Guardian number and acutely talked to the contact person, He found that they had the info on the Bradley GT2 windshields but did not know if they had the tooling. He said he would research to see of they had the tooling and if so have sales call back with more information. I had asked him how the windshields would be shipped. He said they can be bulk shipped or individually shipped, but again it all depends on where they are to be shipped. I asked to make sure, if I supplied them with a list of individuals to be individually shipped, and he said yes, but again cost depends on location to be shipped to.

I had received a call back from a gentleman from Guardian and we had a very informative discussion on the production of the GT II windshield. Like most companies today to keep up with the demands for production, they have gone to full robot operations.

First, Guardian does have the tooling for the GT II windshield, but the question comes to legal issues “Who owns the right to the tooling” and there for it products.

I had check on The Bradley trademark to see if it was open, and maybe we apply for it. But someone at Bradley had just reacquired the trademark license.

Bradley trademark
Owner
(REGISTRANT) Bradley Automotive, Inc.
CORPORATION MINNESOTA
6315 Timber Trail Edina MINNESOTA 55439

Someone can try to contact the Bradley Automotive, Inc, and see of they would set up a windshield production or release the tooling so we can produce the windshield needed.

As for a TradeMark, we can have a off the wall new car name entered and a tooling made for the same windshield, problem is more cost. Maybe the only answer.

Second, Guardian usually does a production of 200 to 500 or more of a product. Anything less would require a setup charge of $4000. This goes to programming the robots for the job, a test run and evaluation of the products.

After the setup charge of $4000 is paid any number of windshield can be produced. More windshield made the price would be a little lower. We would need to order 200 windshield at a cost of $50,000. I have seen many GT II on Ebay and Craigslist listed with no windshield or a cracked windshields.

To get 200 windshield will take some heavy investment on someones part or a complete investment of a well formed Car Club. For the ones of us that have good windshield once they are broken or damage our cars are done for. The next time you see a GT II up for sale for $2000 or more you better buy it for the windshield, if it has one.

So the question is what can we do as the Bradley Car club, does anyone have the $50,000 to start the first production for the Bradley GT II windshield or off the wall name? (Setup and products)
($50,000 is my arbitrary number for cost, it may probably be much higher.)

How do we organize all the Bradley GT II owners US wide who need windshields ?

Wyn