Gary,
Allot of automobile mfg's. today, use the glass as a structural members,
and this is only true when they are glued, or epoxied in.
A rubber gasketed windshield offers little or nothing in the way of a
structural member to the body of a vehicle.

Later,

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Terry 85 GL