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gtrguy
Intermediate Member
Username: gtrguy

Post Number: 104
Registered: 9-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:51 am:   Edit Post

Interesting link discussing the 'Alembic' automobile and the father of glass fibre cars in the USA.

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/glasspar-g2/history.htm
keavin
Senior Member
Username: keavin

Post Number: 1110
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:41 pm:   Edit Post

interesting to know the first alembic seriesI/II's were roadsters in the 1950's!
byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 590
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 6:40 pm:   Edit Post

Ron and Mica told me that the first Alembic car was a Citroen.
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1387
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:44 pm:   Edit Post

Then there's the story how GM got the Corvette going:

quote:

After Naugatuck's Alembic was shown in Philadelphia in 1952, the car was presented to Harley Earl, the Chief Stylist of General Motors, in March of that year. The car was borrowed by General Motors for a month of evaluation, and Chevrolet then designed and built the fiberglass Corvette. Bill Tritt's friend, Brandt Goldsworthy, was a consultant to them on their fiberglass problems and techniques.
The Corvette fiberglass bodies were fabricated using the faster but less rigid pressure-molded process rather than the superior and stronger hand-laminated process used at Glasspar for all their car bodies. This accounts for the fact that the Glasspar bodies are as sound today as they were when they were built.


adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1388
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:47 pm:   Edit Post


quote:

Ron and Mica told me that the first Alembic car was a Citroen.


Hm, would that have been a 2CV - or Ugly Duckling as we say in Holland?
mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 4384
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:14 am:   Edit Post

No, it was an ID19. The next one was a DS21. I miss those cars.

I never heard of Glasspar's cars before, thanks David.
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1392
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 8:15 am:   Edit Post

Ah, la Déesse ... the goddess!

Or Snoek (pike) or Strijkijzer (domestic iron) as we say in Holland.

Picture one of those with any other car that was on the market at the same time - you can't really notice the other car.
estring
Junior
Username: estring

Post Number: 11
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 2:13 pm:   Edit Post

did they ever make one with "Fins" on it?

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