Hallock Windshield

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Sylvester McCabe's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster featured an original Hallock Windshield
Dick Courtney's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster. The Hallock Windshield on Dick's roadster was made made from a mould Dick and Frank Currie made after Jack Torbin's original Hallock Windshield.

Duke Hallock made several Hallock Windshields for 1928 - 1929 Ford Model A Roadsters. The windshield was inspired by the windshields on the new Auburn Speedster.[1] The windshields were reportedly cast in a high school shop foundry. Only one windshield was as far as we know made for a 1932 Ford, and this windshield is mounted on Jackie Howerton's 1932 Ford Roadster.[2] Through the years Hallock did a few windshields for his friends. In 1939 he sold the mould to a friend.[1]


In 1948s two second generation hot rodders at Fullerton High School, Dick Courtney and Frank Currie, were working on their Model A hot rods in their spare time. Courtney and Currie had built their Hi-Boys with 1932 Ford chassis and tuned flathead motors. Both wanted Hallock windshields for their cars, but nobody knew what had happened to the original mould. Jack Tobin, a fellow Hi-Boy enthusiast, had one on his car so, in exchange for replacing the cracked glass on his car, they borrowed it to create a new mould.[3]


Sellers Equipped of San Jose, California fabricates their own Sellers Equipped Hallock Window. The Sellers Equipped windshields are made after the original Hallock Windshields.


Cars Featuring a Hallock Windshield

Jack Underwood's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster
Sylvester McCabe's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster
Francis Leuhm's 1932 Ford Roadster
Jackie Howerton's 1932 Ford Roadster


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