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...And there it is: the chop that changed the world. . .the hot rod world, that is. "The rulebook said the windshield had to be 5 inches. They didn't say anything about angle, though," Dick Pierson said. So Dick, Bob, and Meeks just got the desired height by angling the windshield back--a full 50 degrees! The coupe still wears sheets of plastic in lieu of glass.
The Pierson Brothers Coupe

...And there it is: the chop that changed the world. . .the hot rod world, that is. "The rulebook said the windshield had to be 5 inches. They didn't say anything about angle, though," Dick Pierson said. So Dick, Bob, and Meeks just got the desired height by angling the windshield back--a full 50 degrees! The coupe still wears sheets of plastic in lieu of glass.  View Related Article