914 Windshield inside OEM Glass Sticker logo?, Anyone making these OEM Windshield Mfg. Stickers Options

[TJB/914]

Looking for help if anyone makes these OEM Windshield Sticker's?
Are they different for every model year?
Many years ago while restoring my 914 I used a solvent to clean up the windshield glass & destroyed the letters. I would like one for my OEM original windshield (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)
This is off as recent 1976 in a local shop for repairs in this photo.
Tom Michigan

[scott_in_nh]

While my originality concerns don't extend to the windshield - I still find this all very interesting!
I have almost no history on my car, but knowing when the windshield was replaced would be another small piece to the puzzle.
As you can see the replacement is a PPG, but the markings are different then the ones above - can you @vitamin914 decipher it for me?
Thanks!

[vitamin914]

While my originality concerns don't extend to the windshield - I still find this all very interesting!
I have almost no history on my car, but knowing when the windshield was replaced would be another small piece to the puzzle.
As you can see the replacement is a PPG, but the markings are different then the ones above - can you @vitamin914 decipher it for me?
Thanks!

@scott_in_nh

It has been 30+ years, so much has changed.

From what I can see it was made at PPG works 41 in Berea KY. It has a NAGS number on it (National Auto Glass Supply). NAGS is an industry organization that publishes a catalog for replacement glass for all makes and models. Glass shops use these to order glass from distributors. The NAGS number is is FW235 (FW means Foreign Windshield). This glass was made expressly for the replacement glass aftermarket. PPG was not an OEM for this part.

Since it is PPG not PGW, it means it was made before 2009 when PPG sold the auto glass division. The 0 means 2000 or 1990. It is not earlier because the PPG logo has a border next to the P and G (used to be right to the edge before 1987). I remember having to change a lot of silk screen artwork trademarks because of that pointless change...

It was made in the month of February. Solex is a light green tinted glass. The M 405 would have described that plus the thickness of the inner / outer glass layers and PVB middle layer... You could have different inner and outer glass thickness and or colors although the layers were generally the same type of glass - some Japanese cars used bronze colored glass instead of green. Our cars have clear or green tint glass. We had tables for M numbers to look them up.


Remember that trademark tells when the glass was made. It could have sat in a warehouse for a long time before being sold and installed into your car. It might not be that good for adding to the puzzle information.



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