Hi Gang… Today I have the honor of introducing you to another author, friend of fiberglass, automotive historian and all-around great car guy – Rick Feibusch. Time and time again, Rick sends the coolest cars and the neatest slices of … Continue reading
Hi Gang… This is our ninth in a series of “spotlights” on sections of a Buyer’s Guide for fiberglass sports cars published by Car Craft in March, 1956. Click on the link below to review all fiberglass cars discussed in … Continue reading
————————— Note: This is the second of three articles in a series of articles on the first brochure of Clearfield Plastics of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Click here to review all articles in this series. ————————— Hi Gang… Back in the ‘50s, … Continue reading
———– Note: This is the first part of a 2-part story on the initial article written by Chuck Manning on how to build your own sports car. Click here to review both parts of this story. ———– Hi Gang… Allow me … Continue reading
Hi Gang… I can’t get enough of this cute little car. We’ve found quite a bit of documentation that time, effort, design, and process was all worked out, yet the effort didn’t yield many cars. Howard “Dutch” Darrin’s design for … Continue reading
Hi Gang… What fun it is to share the fiberglass designs of the Midwest. Recently, I wrote about the fiberglass cars of the Northeast in a story about the Rockefeller Yankee. Today’s story focuses on the Detroit born and bred … Continue reading
Hi Gang… This is our eighth in a series of “spotlights” on sections of a Buyer’s Guide for fiberglass sports cars published by Car Craft in March, 1956. Click on the link below to review all fiberglass cars discussed in … Continue reading
Hi Gang… My first fiberglass car was a Shark – a convertible Shark at that. Little did I know that the path I would embark on as a young man would be so adventurous in later life 🙂 Back about … Continue reading
———– Motor Trend Magazine was so impressed by the success of fiberglass sports cars and the excitement over them that by late ’53 they featured a 6 page article featuring 7 different fiberglass cars you could purchase or build yourself. They … Continue reading
Hi Gang… We’ve talked about Howard “Dutch” Darrin and his repeated use of fiberglass to create great designs and memorable one-off cars time and time again. But Raymond Loewy created some great designs for sports cars in the ’50s too … Continue reading
——————– “Some of the facts pertinently revealed here may shock the reader….” Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book (1955) That’s what’s written on the back cover of Bob Gurr’s ’55 book on car design, and it gives the book a … Continue reading
Hi Gang… How did our favorite ‘glass companies get new business? Was it thru articles in magazines? Was it thru brochures? How ‘bout racing events at Bonneville and road courses? And course thru word of mouth – right? So how … Continue reading
Hi Gang… This is one of my favorite titles for the larger and more powerful sports cars – most of which were fiberglass by ’56 – built in America. Jim Potter, the author of this article, had been covering the … Continue reading
Hi Gang… What a great name for a sports car – the Townsend Typhoon. Frank Townsend built his first “Typhoon” in ’54 on a ’49 Plymouth chassis – 111 inch wheelbase and all. What a grand car it was to … Continue reading
Hi Gang… This is our seventh in a series of “spotlights” on sections of a Buyer’s Guide for fiberglass sports cars published by Car Craft in March, 1956. Click on the link below to review all fiberglass cars discussed in … Continue reading
Hi Gang… One of the first folks I met when I started researching topics in Forgotten Fiberglass was Phil Fleming. Harold Pace had written a story about Byers sports cars and Phil contributed to that story in significant ways. Recently, … Continue reading
Hi Gang… Today’s story is a result of an e-mail I received from Don Anderson (click here to learn more the Sportstar built by Don’s father) and a posting on “Bring A Trailer” as to a “mystery car” needing a … Continue reading
———– Motor Trend Magazine was so impressed by the success of fiberglass sports cars and the excitement over them that by late ’53 they featured a 6 page article featuring 7 different fiberglass cars you could purchase or build yourself. They … Continue reading
Hi Gang… The Multiplex lineage of cars starts back at the turn of the 20th century – takes a near 50 year hiatus – and then starts again in ’53. Today we’ll explore more about the cars and the brochures … Continue reading
————– “When all is said and done, where else but in America can you find the talent and “can-do” spirit needed to produce a poor man’s Allard?” Motorsports Magazine: May-June 1953 Read on to learn more… ————– Hi Gang… … Continue reading
