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Geoff Hacker and Rick D’Louhy
Forgotten Fiberglass
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- May 2013 (6)
- 15: Cisitalia Specs For Allied Swallow Owners – Motor: February 1949 (2)
- 14: Woodill Wildfire Coupe Debuts – Rodding and Re-Styling: May, 1956 (0)
- 05: Who Is That Mystery Man With Hank McCormack? Why It’s Don Cox – Of Course! (4)
- 04: Car Craft’s Building a Sorrell Fiberglass Sports Car – Part 3: The Plaster Splash Female Mold (1)
- 03: The McCormack Custom Car Debuts at the 1955 Petersen Motorama – Car Craft: January 1956 (4)
- 01: Robert Cumberford’s Reactions To “Don’t Build That Fiberglass Body!” (Car and Driver, Sept 1962) – Part 2 (8)
- April 2013 (52)
- 30: The Jack Hilbig Victress S1A Roadster – Erich Schultz Saves Another “Special” (1)
- 29: The Vale Sports Car and the 1954 Pacific International Motor Sports Show (1)
- 28: Hot Rod Meets Sports Car: Bill Hebal’s Handcrafted 1946 Reichenbach Special (4)
- 27: Create Your Own Custom Body – Vince Gardner Shows Us How To Design and Build Your Own Sport Car in 1952 (3)
- 26: Youngest Victress Employee Found! Barry Tousley Remembers His Earliest Years At Victress Nearly 60 Years Ago Today… (7)
- 24: 1954 Custom Cars Trend Book Annual – Part 3: Woody Woodill & The Woodill Wildfire (1)
- 23: Max Fleischer’s Ogle Orbed Olds Custom Car – Motor Trend: August, 1953 (5)
- 22: Saving an Almquist Sabre – A Trip Through Time With Clark Mitchell and the ‘Macaroni Monza’ – November, 2012 (6)
- 21: Car Craft’s Building a Sorrell Fiberglass Sports Car – Part 2: The Fiberglass Female Mold (3)
- 20: Forgotten Fiberglass Cars To Appear At Hemmings Concours d’Elegance – Sept 27-29, 2013 (1)
- 19: Tony St. Clair and “Deadly Curves:” The 1920s – Embossed Gauge Panels (8)
- 18: Forgotten Fiberglass is Going to Carlisle May 17-19 2013 – Seminar 2 – Renault Based Fiberglass Specials (2)
- 17: The Bohada – Three Friends, A Dream and An Award Winning Sports Car (6)
- 16: Ten Automobiles Exhibit (1953) – Automobiles As Works Of Art: The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York (5)
- 15: Robert Cumberford Says….”Don’t Build That Fiberglass Body!” (Car and Driver, Sept 1962) – Part 1 (6)
- 14: Car Craft’s Building a Sorrell Fiberglass Sports Car – Part 1: Design and Full Scale Model (0)
- 13: Forgotten Fiberglass On The Road to Carlisle: May 17-19 2013 – Seminar 1 – Forgotten Fiberglass (5)
- 12: Maverick Sportster Brochure: “Land Bound Pegasus With Air-Borne Power And Cloud-Like Riding Quality” (0)
- 11: 1954 Custom Cars Trend Book Annual – Part 2: The Brooks Boxer & The Glasspar G2 Sports Car (4)
- 11: The Rogue and the Enzmann – Small Car Parade: March, 1960 (3)
- 10: A Fiberglass 1999 T-Bird? You Betcha! Another Concept Vehicle in ‘Glass (3)
- 09: The Stunning Hirsch Roadster by Jeff Hirsch: A Mystery No More (8)
- 08: 1954 Custom Cars Trend Book Annual – Part 1: “Is The Public Ready For Plastic?” (4)
- 08: Super Plastic Sports Car Unveiled – CRV-4 Worldwide Tour Press Release (2)
- 08: The Influence of Cunningham Sports Cars on American Car Designers & Builders: Press Release Photos – Part 2 (2)
- 07: Forgotten Fiberglass in Australia – By Dale Allen (2)
- 07: Build Your Own Concept Car – The 1963 All Star Dairy’s Batmobile (2)
- 07: Maverick Sales Sheet from Industrial Plastics Services (1952) – A Rare Bird Indeed (0)
- 07: The Marlee Sports Car – All It Took Was 1500 Hours and 800 Hundred Pounds of Plaster (0)
- 07: The Argentina Built Porsche Powered Fiberglass Bodied 1954 Justicialista Sports Car (3)
- 07: The Wendell “Slim” Fuller Volkswagen VW Special – Part 2 (1)
- 06: Aurora Concept Car Drawing by Alfred Juliano: Debuts in Early 1956 (1)
- 06: Gene Winfield Shares Photos of the CRV: Part 1 (5)
- 06: Say It Isn’t So! My Grandpa Morrie Was Right! “Drive-on” Roller Coasters For Your Car (7)
- 06: Chicagoan / Triplex Sports Car Debuts at 1954 Chicago Auto Show (2)
- 05: 1954 Fiat 8V in Fiberglass – To Be Or Not To Be… (12)
- 05: The 1958 Norman Switzer Customized Car – St. Petersburg, Florida (2)
- 05: Geordie Prodis’ Byers SR100 – Recognized By Road & Track As The “World’s Most Beautiful Sports Car” in 1957 (7)
- 04: Press Release Photos Found For 1959 Shamrock (5)
- 04: Introducing Tony St. Clair and His Blog “Deadly Curves” – Car Gauges & The Shift To Modernarity (0)
- 04: The 1960 France Super Jet – “American Style” (5)
- 03: New Styling Ideas From Ford – Motor Trend: April, 1952 (4)
- 03: George W. Walker’s Concept of a Streamlined “Plastic” Sedan: February, 1942 (3)
- 03: Rockefeller Yankee Debut in Automobile Topics: April, 1953 (0)
- 03: The Birth of the Flintridge DKW Darrin Mark II Sports Car: Motor Trend and Road & Track – Early 1957 (0)
- 02: The 1955 Cougar: One Step Closer To The Origins of Darren Swanson’s Mystery Car (3)
- 02: The Ads of Sports Car Engineering – Phil Fleming Comes Through With A Vintage Find! (0)
- 02: The Influence of Cunningham Sports Cars on American Car Designers & Builders: Press Release Photos – Part 1 (0)
- 02: The Aurora – Reverend Juliano’s Safety Car Dream – Car Life: August, 1956 (2)
- 01: Color Photos of The First Glasspar G2 Sports Car – Motorsport: August, 1952 (0)
- 01: Veritas Spohn Custom Car Photos Found: Feature Car of the 1957 Indianapolis Custom Car Show (14)
- 01: “Meteor” Storm From The Northwest – The Eave Chevy Special: Sports Cars Illustrated, November 1957 (0)
- March 2013 (23)
- 31: Erich Schultz Finds A Byers CR90 – The Analysis and “Carchaeology” Begins… (5)
- 31: Kurtis-Kraft: World’s Largest Builders of Professional Racing Cars – And Smaller “Midget” Race Cars Too! (1)
- 31: LaDawri Coachcraft’s First Catalog: The 1957 Conquest (1)
- 31: The Carl Holch Special – A Family Car And A Mystery Car All In One (1)
- 31: Restored Victress C3 / LaDawri Castilian From Michigan – Where Are You??? (5)
- 30: The 1961 Seagrave Compact Car – Who Put Out The Fire? (5)
- 30: A Tribute To Jere Duke’s Victress S1 And His Love Of All Things Automotive (0)
- 29: Denny’s Dream: The 1959 Corvette-LaDawri Special – A Head Turner in Every Way (7)
- 28: Stan and Ann Fowler Woodill Wildfire Sightings – Frankenmuth Autofest: September, 2012 (5)
- 27: “A Tribute To A Tribute” – The 1946 Bill Burke Belly Tank Streamliner In Art (1)
- 26: The 1966 Viking KP-101: A Venezuelan-Miami-American Sports Car (6)
- 26: Spyders, Hurricanes, and Tornados – Oh My! The 1958 Sports Car Engineering Catalog Revealed (0)
- 25: Alden Jewell Locates Original Maverick Sportster Blueprint (0)
- 25: It’s A Meteor! It’s A Byers! It’s A Fiberglass Bodied Mexican Ford Special! (10)
- 25: Handcrafted Specials Featured at the Milwaukee Masterpiece Concours d’Elegance: August 24-25, 2013 (2)
- 24: The 1961 Seagrave Fiberglass Custom Compact Car (5)
- 23: Introducing the 1958 Hurricane By Sports Car Engineering (12)
- 21: Fiberfriends Deliver! Bob Cunningham Finds First Color Photo of 1951 Lancer (5)
- 20: Alden Jewell’s Archive Unveils More About The Vale… (2)
- 19: The 1966 Viking KP-101: The All-American Dream (10)
- 18: The Birth of the CRV Centaur (Piranha): Original Press Release Emerges 1964-1965 (2)
- 17: Our 1962 Shark And The Road To Amelia – Part One (13)
- 03: The 1962 Shark Roadster – 168 Hours to the Amelia Island Concours And Counting… (9)
- February 2013 (3)
- January 2013 (8)
- 31: More Glasspar Bodied “Yankee Clipper” History Found – Alden Jewell To The Rescue! (3)
- 30: Ready…Set…Go! Restoring a 1962 Shark in 90 Days or Less (10)
- 29: 1958 Publicity Photo from Stuttgart, Germany: The Enzmann 506 (6)
- 28: Henry Covington – The Man & His “El Tiburon” (4)
- 27: SOS! Save the La Saetta! My Adventures in the Days Before The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance (6)
- 26: The Postwar “Do-It-Yourself” Phenomenon…How & Why People Built Their Own Sports Cars (9)
- 25: The Borg-Warner CRV – In The News: Central Park Publicity Photo, March, 1965 (2)
- 24: First In Fiberglass in ’52 – The Danes First Car Was Planned in Plastic (10)
- April 2012 (16)
- 12: Merrill Powell From Victress Turns 82 Today: Happy Birthday Merrill!!! (33)
- 08: Lancer Brochure 1955: Fiberglass Sports Bodies For Your Chassis (1)
- 08: Build Your Own Fiberglass Sports Car: The Skorpion By John A. Wills (0)
- 08: Johnny Dark Production Notes Found! And Why They Are Important For Forgotten Fiberglass Enthusiasts (8)
- 08: The Ads of Sorrell Engineering: Selling Bob Sorrell’s Sports Cars, 1955-1956 (5)
- 07: Fiberglass Essentials: The Impact Of The American Fiberglass Sports Car Builder. An Article By Guy Dirkin (2)
- 05: Canada’s Campbell Sports Car Company – A Buckler Special Using Peel Body (3)
- 04: Vince Gardner’s 1950 Studebaker Special: Postwar Sport Custom – Part 1 (4)
- 04: Jerry Gardner’s 1952 Voodoo Dream: The Mightiest Postwar Special Ever Built – Part 2 (3)
- 03: Woodill Wildfire Logos Are Here!!! Woodill Wildfire Logos Are Here!!! (2)
- 03: The Great New Devin Junior – Gas Engine Powered Miniature Sports Car (9)
- 03: “Glass on the Grass” – Devin, Glasspar, Byers, And Almquist Appear Across the Land! (11)
- 02: Whatever Happened To The Homebuilt Sports Car? An Article By Rick Feibusch (5)
- 01: The Mightiest of the Mighty! Bill Miller’s 12 Cylinder Packard Sports Custom: Part 2 (4)
- 01: Supercharged Kurtis Nash 500M: Bob Christie’s Carrera Panamerica Sports Car (6)
- 01: Want To Build A Sports Car? Robert Jackson Does: Part 2 (Motorsport, June 1953) (0)
- March 2012 (18)
- 31: Stan Mott And His “Cover Story” For The LaDawri Conquest: Road & Track, July 1957 (4)
- 31: The Mightiest of the Mighty! Bill Miller’s 12 Cylinder Packard Sports Custom: Part 1 (2)
- 31: Victress! The World’s Fastest Sports Car: Motor Life, August 1955 (3)
- 30: Road & Track Puts The Devin SS Through Its Paces: Road Test Annual 1960 (1)
- 29: La Dawri Coachcraft’s 1963 Catalog: A Feast For Your Fiberglass Eyes… (7)
- 29: The Manning Competition Car: Lost Chuck Manning Publication From The 50’s Surfaces! (24)
- 29: Fibersport! A Bloomington Illinois Fiberglass Special by John Mays and John Burmaster (5)
- 28: The Glasspar G2 Sports Car – Made With Naugatuck Chemical’s Vibrin Resin: U.S. Rubber Magazine, April 1952 (2)
- 27: The LaDawri Conquest Debuts in California: Road & Track Magazine, July 1957 (2)
- 27: How Much “Willys” Was The First Woodill Wildfire? A Research Project Continues (12)
- 26: The Peerless GT – A Gran Turismo Fiberglass Bodied Four-Seater Sports Car From Across The Pond (6)
- 25: The Claude Word Woodill Wildfire – A South Carolina Plastic Powerhouse (5)
- 25: Build Yourself a Kurtis Style Chassis: Hot Rod Magazine, July 1954 (2)
- 22: Jerry Gardner’s 1952 Voodoo Dream: The Mightiest Postwar Special Ever Built – Part 1 (15)
- 04: Bill Quirk and Bill Powell’s Victress Dragster Debuts! Rod & Custom, July 1955 (1)
- 04: Disneyland’s Autopia: Famous Fiberglass of the 50’s – Glasspar, Mameco, Bob Gurr, and More! (7)
- 02: The James McDaniel Special: More Photos And History Found (1)
- 01: Chrysler Design Competition, Late 1950’s: An Article by Bob Peterson (7)
- February 2012 (48)
- 28: The Bronze Bomb: Dick MacCoon’s (Grant Piston Ring Company) Victress S1 Roadster (4)
- 28: Cool Cars for Cats and Canines – And Maybe Some Vintage ‘Glass Too! An Article By Will Silk (3)
- 25: The 1952 Tobin BMW 328 Special: Found and Restored! Part 4 (1)
- 24: An Analysis of Four Years of Fiber Ads: The “Directory” of Sports Cars Illustrated 1958 – 1961 (7)
- 23: The 1955 McCormack: A Personal Recollection of Hank’s “Sporty” Car – by Rich McCormack (5)
- 22: The Hellings Victress Flyers #3 – Build Your Own American Sports Car! (1953+) (2)
- 22: The 1954 Fiberglass Singer SMX Sports Car: An Article By Phillip Avis (3)
- 19: Chaos Rules Rodney, The Glasspar Guru: Call Me “Kaoss” – The Latest G2 Found (7)
- 19: Astra / Allied Car Catalog, 1965: Kellison Car Affiliate (2)
- 19: The Salem GMC Kurtis Byers SR100: John Furlow’s Restored Beauty (Sportscar Specials, Trend Book 178, 1958) (6)
- 19: To “Meteor” Or Not To “Meteor” – That’s The Question: The Simpson – Karow Special (1)
- 19: International Success – of Fiberglass Sports Cars! Part 5: The Victress S1 (0)
- 18: Glasspar G2 Front Grilles And Windshield Posts – Back in Production! (7)
- 18: American Enterprises and The Birth of Clearfield Plastics: The Clearfield Progress Newspaper – April 27, 1954 (1)
- 18: In ’58 It’s Great! Ten Fiberglass Cars Reviewed: 1958 Sports Car Illustrated Directory (2)
- 17: Kaucher’s Koncepts: A Modern Take On A Classic – The Cheetah GTS (6)
- 16: Building Your Own Sports Car: The Manning Special Part 2 – Road & Track, October 1951 (1)
- 15: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 11 – The Victress Dragster (4)
- 12: The Roger Adam Almquist Speedster – From Clearfield, Pennsylvania (7)
- 12: The 1951 Doray Sport Custom: Willys Based Special From Miami, Florida (2)
- 12: The Promise Of Plastic: “Auto Bubbles” Clear ‘Glass Top In 1948 (3)
- 12: Another LeMans Coupe Surfaces! The Carl Schoonhoven California Special (2)
- 11: The Prewar Willys – The Basis For America’s First Postwar Fiberglass Sports Car (14)
- 11: Sportster Morphed: Dan Post And The 1937 “Topper Sport Custom,” by Glenn Brummer (3)
- 09: A Sports Car Reborn: The Rheinhardt & Mitchell Byers SR-100 Special (3)
- 09: Hermann Spohn, Coachbuilder: By Wayne R. Graefen (13)
- 09: Atlas / Allied Owners Take Notice! The “Latest Cisitalia Speedster:” Auto Sport Review, March 1953 (1)
- 08: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 10 – The Glasspar G2 Roadster (0)
- 08: Ed Almquist, Motorhead, Inventor And Pioneer: By Donna Kessler, Times Herald-Record Newspaper (4)
- 08: Astra Sports Car Catalog, Winter 1962 / 1963: Kellison Sports Car Affiliate (4)
- 07: Body By Victress – 1956 Brochure – This Is A Car You Can Be Proud Of! (5)
- 07: International Success – of Fiberglass Sports Cars! Part 4: The Maverick Sportster (1)
- 06: The Mysterious, Beautiful Byers – Featuring John Furlow’s Kurtis 500KK SR-100 Sports Car (2)
- 06: It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane…It’s Another Mysterion! The Rick Guy Special From Canada (10)
- 05: The Rockefeller Yankee Sports Car From Long Island: Auto Age, June 1953 (0)
- 05: The “Berkeley” From “Berkeley” Is Not A UK “Berkeley” – It’s VW Based And USA All The Way! (4)
- 04: The Continental Kit – “That Tire On The Back:” By Rick Feibusch (7)
- 04: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 9 – The Victress C2 Coupe (1)
- 04: The Birth of Clearfield Plastics: Part 2: Reply to Road & Track Magazine – October ’55 (6)
- 03: Building Your Own Sports Car: The Manning Special Part 1 – Road & Track, September 1951 (3)
- 03: Der Kustom Wagen – DKW Flintridge, By Darrin and Woodill: Motor Trend, October 1957 (1)
- 03: The Testaguzza Brothers La Saetta – “The Thunderbolt:” Motor Life, August 1955 (5)
- 02: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 8 – The Victress S1A Roadster (1)
- 02: Henry Covington’s El Tiburon – Streamlined Speed In St. Petersburg, Florida (9)
- 01: International Success – of Fiberglass Sports Cars! Part 3: The William Commons Special (0)
- 01: Raymond Loewy’s BMW 507 – Lithe, Low and Loewy: Motor Trend, October 1957 (5)
- 01: Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book (1955) By Bob Gurr – Part 3 (2)
- 01: Come One, Come All….The Fiberglass Ads of Car Craft, March 1956 (1)
- January 2012 (83)
- 31: America’s Boulevard Sports Cars: Jim Potter’s Thoughts – Motor Life, July 1956 (4)
- 31: The Townsend Typhoons: Mark I and Mark II Sports And Race Cars (2)
- 30: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 7 – The McCormack Coupe (0)
- 30: Hardtops For Byers SR-100 (And Meteor SR-1) Sports Cars: Phil Fleming Weighs In… (2)
- 30: The Tom Story Sports Car / Sports Custom: Road & Track, January 1951 (4)
- 29: International Success – of Fiberglass Sports Cars! Part 2: The Detroiter (2)
- 29: The Multiplex 186 “The Biggest Little Car In The World” Berwick, Pennsylvania (1953-1955+) (3)
- 29: The Rockefeller Yankee – Poor Man’s Porsche: Motorsport, May-June 1953 (1)
- 28: Introducing A Steam Powered Victress S4 – The 1963 Keen Steamliner (2)
- 28: Victress 500cc Race Cars: Bodies & Frames As Low As $245 (500cc Club of American Bulletin: March 1959) (7)
- 28: Bob Peterson’s Kellison Restoration Begins – And Continues Thru The Iowa Winter… (9)
- 28: International Success – of Fiberglass Sports Cars! Part 1: The Glasspar G2 (0)
- 28: The Ron Amos Glasspar G2 – A Beautiful G2 Rarin’ For A Restoration… (7)
- 27: Woodill Fiber Glass Body Corporation Announces Expanded 1956 Production Plans – Press Release February 1956 (3)
- 27: The Hellings Victress Flyers #2 – Build Your Own American Sports Car! (1953+) (2)
- 27: TVR Vixen: A Fiberglass Fantasy – By Will Silk (6)
- 27: Dick Jones Meteor SR-100: Color Photos Emerge From The Robert McJones Collection (8)
- 26: John Bond From Road & Track Shares: “How To Build A Fiberglass Body…” January, 1953 (3)
- 26: The Birth of Clearfield Plastics: Part 1: Reply to Road & Track Magazine – October ’55 (4)
- 26: So You Want To Build A Frame For Your ‘Glass Car In ’55? Let Victress Mfg Show You How! (2)
- 25: The Jud Phillips Allied Swallow Coupe – Nearly an Offenhauser Special! (3)
- 25: Vern Gardner and His BMC Singer Fiberglass Bodied Sports Car – An Article By Peter McKercher (6)
- 25: Fiberglass Automobile Body Construction: Doc Boyce-Smith & Victress Manufacturing (1955) (2)
- 25: Streamliner From Down Under…By Glenn Brummer (12)
- 24: The 1953 Commons’ Crusader – Lost Fiberglass Car Of Yesteryear… (0)
- 24: A Custom Job Called “The Spohn:” Speed Age, October 1952 (14)
- 23: BMC Singer, Vaughan Singer Glasspar, And American Enterprises – So Much So New in ‘52 (1)
- 23: The Hellings Victress Flyers #1 – Build Your Own American Sports Car! (1953+) (2)
- 23: Clearfield Plastics (Almquist) Debuts! Carmart, September 1955 (1)
- 22: The Glassmakers 1960: Part 5: Almquist Engineering – (Sportscar Graphic: May-June 1960) (0)
- 22: “One If By Land…” The Mysterion Arrives – From California to Montana to Florida In Just 60 Years… (6)
- 22: Psssst…Wanna Build a Victress? Doc Boyce-Smith and Ted Kelly Want to Teach You How! (1953) (0)
- 22: Devin Enterprises: Panhard And Sports Cars – All In One! Road & Track, January 1957 (1)
- 21: Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book (1955) By Bob Gurr – Part 2 (2)
- 21: Evans Industries Becomes Victress and Byers Distributor: Spring 1960 (4)
- 20: The Glassmakers 1960: Part 4: Victress Manufacturing – (Sportscar Graphic: May-June 1960) (5)
- 20: The U.S.Mark II Plot Thickens – Marshall Foxworthy Takes Over The Restoration Reins (3)
- 20: Iowa’s Automobiles: An Entertaining and Enlightening History By Bill Jepsen (4)
- 20: The Atlas / Allied Fiber Glass Company: The Details Are In The Diagrams – Brochure #4 (4)
- 19: The Chuck Manning Special: Hop Up Magazine, August 1952 (15)
- 18: The Mark II By U.S. Fiberglass: The Thrill Of Sports Car Driving Is Now Within Reach Of All (2)
- 18: Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book (1955) By Bob Gurr – Part 1 (1)
- 18: Look Out Ole Macky Is Back! Henry McCormack’s Sport Coupe, That Is (3)
- 17: The 1960 Kellison Catalog: So Many Choices – Let’s Buy Them All! (4)
- 17: The Mark II By U.S. Fiberglass: A Tale Of Research, Intrigue, And Celebration! (7)
- 16: Byers and Kellison and Fiberglass Trends….Oh My!!! (Part 2) (6)
- 16: The Glassmakers 1960: Part 3: La Dawri Coachcraft – (Sportscar Graphic: May-June 1960) (5)
- 16: Accessorizing Your Vintage ‘Glass: Buy Your Own Race Track! Turbo Drive Slot Car Arcade (15)
- 16: The Ray Hixon Devin Special: On The Grid, September 1960 (3)
- 15: The Glassmakers 1960: Part 2: Kellison – (Sportscar Graphic: May-June 1960) (2)
- 15: The Atlas / Allied Fiber Glass Company: The Allied Falcon Fiber-Glass Body Brochure #3 (4)
- 15: The DKW Flintridge – A New Howard “Dutch” Darrin Sports Car Design: Motor Life, November 1957 (6)
- 15: Bill Tritt: Designer, Builder, Entrepreneur, and Fiberglass Visionary (1917-2011): Part 4 (2)
- 14: The 1953 Renault-Based Plasticar Rogue: Designed For Speed, Comfort, and Durability (1)
- 14: The Atlas / Allied Fiber Glass Company: The Allied Swallow Fiber-Glass Body Brochure #2 (2)
- 14: Let’s Race That ‘Glass Contraption! By Will Silk (4)
- 13: The Atlas / Allied Fiber Glass Company: America’s First Production Fiberglass Coupe Body – Brochure #1 (1)
- 13: Kellison: The Fiberglass Body You’ve Been Waiting For (6)
- 12: More History Emerges: The 1952 E. J. Tobin BMW Special – Part 3 (6)
- 12: The Chuck Manning Meteor Special – A Scratch-Built Race Winning Sports Car: Popular Science, December 1952 (7)
- 11: Designing the Automobile and The Art Center of Los Angeles: Custom Car Yearbook #2 (1964) (3)
- 11: Forgotten Fiberglass To Be Featured At The 2012 Salisbury Concours d’Elegance: Des Moines, Iowa (2)
- 10: How To Draw Cars of Tomorrow (1952) – By Henry “Bob” Gurr: Part 3 (0)
- 09: The 1953 Renault-Based Plasticar Marquis: Fashioned For Elegance, Economy and Speed – Part 2 (0)
- 09: Classy Chassis Concours d’ Elegance in Houston, Texas Hosts Fiberglass Specials in 2012 (4)
- 09: Another LeMans Coupe (History) Found – Walter Jackson’s Witchcraft Drag Race Car (2)
- 09: Bob Tucker’s Indiana Glascar: Motor Life, July 1956 (1)
- 08: The Bangert Manta Ray – Limited Only By The Builder’s Imagination: Motor Life, July 1955 (0)
- 08: Kurtis Kraftsmanship: Auto Sport Review, May 1952 (1)
- 08: State of the Fiberglass Industry: Motor Life, July 1956 (4)
- 08: The Pat Amendolia Special: A Hot Rod In Sports Car Clothing From 1953 (3)
- 07: Byers and Kellison and Fiberglass Trends….Oh My!!! (Part 1) (2)
- 07: The McCormack – Latest in Custom Styling: Motor Life, February 1956 (5)
- 07: Toly Arutunoff’s Mystery Fiberglass Sports Car – Perhaps From The Continent (5)
- 06: Gatford Becomes Gatso – A 1948 American-Based “Dutch-Built” Special (3)
- 06: The 1953 Renault-Based Plasticar Marquis: Fashioned For Elegance, Economy and Speed – Part 1 (6)
- 05: The 1969 Gazelle / Amante GT (Hebina Plastics / Voegele Industries) (4)
- 05: The 1952 La Saetta by Testaguzza: The Tasteful Custom Sports Car (5)
- 04: The 1955 McCormack: Henry McCormack’s Custom Fiberglass Sports Car (1)
- 04: The Debut of Alan and Jen Mortlock’s Glasspar G2 Special (14)
- 03: The Mark II By U.S. Fiberglass Industrial Plastics, Norwood New Jersey (4)
- 03: The Search For The Birth Of Fiberglass – Mysterious Pennsylvania Location Revealed (11)
- 03: The Birth of the Victress S4 – The “Story” Behind the “Story” of a Fiberglass Car (6)
- December 2011 (9)
- 29: The Holiday Forgotten Fiberglass Adventure For 2011… (16)
- 11: Strother MacMinn’s LeMans Coupe: Sports Cars of the Future: 1959 (4)
- 09: Fiberglass State of the Industry: Car and Driver, November 1971 (5)
- 04: Fiberglass State of the Industry 1956: Trend Book 130 (7)
- 02: The Future is Now! Your First (Plastic) Postwar Automobile: Spot Magazine, October 1942 (2)
- 02: Kurtis-Kraft Sports Cars: Sports Cars Trend Book #130 (1956) (0)
- 01: The Glassmakers 1960: Part 1: Devin – (Sportscar Graphic, May-June 1960) (3)
- 01: The 1960 Enzmann 506 From Switzerland – VW Based European Sports Car (5)
- 01: How To Draw Cars of Tomorrow (1952) – By Henry “Bob” Gurr: Part 2 (4)
- November 2011 (48)
- 29: The Birth of the Gazelle / Navajo Sports Car: Spring 1953 (3)
- 29: Richard Arbib’s Porsche Based Concept Car: The Starfire Custom Convertible (3)
- 28: Dashboard Fingerprints: The History of Gauges For Your Hot Rod / Sports Car (2)
- 28: The Long Lost Don Cook Glasspar GMC Sportster – Classic G2 Sports Car In Every Way (2)
- 28: The Birth of the Kurtis Sports Car (KSC): Speed Age January 1948 and Road and Track December 1949 (4)
- 28: GMC Under Glass: The Dick Lane Sorrell SR100 With A Kurtis 500KK Chassis Too! (4)
- 27: Fiberglass State of the Industry – 1953: Hop Up Magazine, April 1953 (3)
- 27: The 1952 Petersen Motorama – An Automotive Smorgasbord! Auto Sport Review (March, 1953) (1)
- 26: The 1970 Can Am 1 By Bolide Motors – An Extension of Borg-Warner and the CRV (7)
- 25: Kaucher’s Koncepts: Keith Blazes A New Trail With The 1952 Maverick Sportster (5)
- 25: The Birth Of The Allied / Atlas Swallow – The Cisitalia: Auto Speed and Sport, September 1952 (3)
- 24: The Fiberglass Bodied Tata OneCAT: An Idea That’s Full of “Hot Air” – by Will Silk (9)
- 23: Lloyd Templeton’s Saturn: Sport Custom From Ames, Iowa (Motor Trend, January 1953) (3)
- 21: How To Draw Cars of Tomorrow (1952) – By Henry “Bob” Gurr: Part 1 (5)
- 20: The Quarter Midgets Are Here! The Viking Craft Quarter Midgets Are Here! (1955) (3)
- 20: The 1947 Gatford / Gatso Sports Car: An American Based Special Built in Holland (6)
- 20: The First Fiberglass Construction Book: Building The Plastic Car (1952) by Eric Irwin (6)
- 20: “Erin Go Beep” – The Shamrock Debuts (Again) – May 24th, 1961 (2)
- 19: The 1978 Boa Sports Car – A Sleeping Southern California Treasure Just Waiting To Be Found (9)
- 19: Automotive Styling Is An Art – by George Jergenson, Art Center School of Design: Motor Trend, October 1949 (4)
- 18: Frank Kurtis and Kurtis Kraft: Postwar American Coachbuilding Royalty: Car Life December, 1961 (3)
- 17: 1956 Morgan +4 Fiberglass One-Off Sports Racer (16)
- 17: The Joe David Victress C3 Special – Kit Car Magazine, March 1984 (5)
- 17: Where Are You “Super Skorpions” Out There…Viking Craft Brochure, 1953 (1)
- 16: The 1957 Fiber-Craft Brochure – The First Byers SR-100 and CR-90 Brochure (1)
- 16: The Multiplex 186 – A Car With “Brass Era” Roots And A “Singer Special” Too! (1)
- 14: Fabulous Forgotten Fiberglass Flyers: The Byers SR100 (1)
- 13: Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky: Transport of Tomorrow – Skyways Magazine, January 1943 (5)
- 10: The Dick Foster Victress S1A Special – An Original Owner and Car Reunited: Part 3 (2)
- 10: Introducing The “Fabulous Forgotten Fiberglass Flyer” For The Glasspar G2 – And They’re Free! (5)
- 08: A Keith Kaucher Concept: The Verona GT – Extending the Hirsch Sports Car Design (9)
- 08: Harold Beck Victress Special – Where O’ Where Are You Today? (Cars Magazine, May 1960) (2)
- 07: The Dick Foster Victress S1A Special – An Original Owner and Car Reunited: Part 2 (5)
- 06: The Dick Foster Victress S1A Special – An Original Owner and Car Reunited: Part 1 (1)
- 06: Chassis Up Guys! Get Yours While They Last….The 1953 Kurtis 500 KK Frame: Hop Up, October 1953 (0)
- 05: Blue Ray 3: The Birth of a Concept Car (by Simpson Design) (6)
- 05: The 1953 Paxton Phoenix – Brooks Stevens Designed Steam Car – Fiberglass Bodied Prototype (5)
- 05: Dick Jones Inspiration for the Meteor SR-1: Meet the 1949 Veritas Meteor (0)
- 04: Introducing The Victress Brochure For 1955 (2)
- 04: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: The “Covington Tiburon” and the “Bosley GT Mark 1” (2)
- 03: Super Skorpion: Introduction and Brochure (Late 1952) (2)
- 03: Glasspar G2 Frame (Build) Instructions (1952-1954) (1)
- 03: Robert Monroe’s 1949 Rogue – Cadillac Powered Sport Custom Extraordinaire (3)
- 02: Top Of The Morning To You…..Let’s Review The Shamrock Brochure (1)
- 02: Hemmings Muscle Machines: The 58th Variety “Victress Story” by Daniel Strohl (1)
- 01: The Birth of Sportstar Associates: Motor Sports World, December 5th, 1952 (1)
- 01: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 6 – The Sorrell SR-100 Sports Car (2)
- 01: Fiberglass Explodes On The Scene – Petersen Motorama November 1953 (1)
- October 2011 (57)
- 31: Edwards R26 / R-26 Sports Special: Second Body By Hagemann (7)
- 31: The Victress S1 Fiberglass Body: Car Life, February 1954 (3)
- 30: Treasure Trove of 1946 Fiberglass Darrin “Life Magazine” Pictures Found! (6)
- 30: Custom Cars: Glass Fabric Hydro-Styling – James A. Lampman (1952) (2)
- 30: Fabricated Fantasy: The Collins / Weissenborn Byers CR90 MGA Special (Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, March 2008) (2)
- 30: Howard “Dutch” Darrin – King of the Coachbuilders: Motor Trend, February 1953 (1)
- 29: Another “California Special” Surfaces – The Denny Allen Special (Mysterion) (3)
- 29: The 1949 Spohn Veritas Sports Car Special: Pre-Auction Pictures (2)
- 28: The 1949 Edwards R-26 / R26 Sports Car Special: Pre-Auction Pictures (3)
- 28: Introducing the 1959 Shamrock – The “Irish T-Bird” (Motor Trend, September 1959) (1)
- 28: Skorpion: America’s Newest Sports Car: Viking-Craft Brochure (1953) (0)
- 27: Meet The 1960 “Zar Car” – A New Canadian Fiberglass Car Emerges From History (7)
- 27: The George Barris of Ravensburg – Spohn Coachworks: Special Interest Autos, Jan-Feb 1974 (10)
- 26: Henry Ford Demonstrates Plastic Bodies For Cars: Popular Science, March 1941 (1)
- 26: The James McDaniel Special – One Of America’s First Fiberglass Half Midget Show Cars (10)
- 20: The 1949 Edwards R-26 / R26 Sports Car Special: The First Postwar Coachbuilt All-American Sports / Race Car (5)
- 19: Germans Invade Custom Car Field: The Spohn Custom Mercury: Hop-Up & Motor Life, January 1954 (4)
- 19: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Merrill Powell From Victress And Steve Steers to the Rescue (3)
- 19: Glasspar G2 American Special – A Racing Tribute to Bill Tritt That’s Ready….Set….Go!!! (3)
- 19: Bill Burke Answers Road & Track’s Challenge To Build The “American Cisitalia” (0)
- 18: Howard “Dutch” Darrin’s 1953 Dyna-Panhard Special (1)
- 18: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: The Devin Sports Car Specials (1)
- 17: The Wendell “Slim” Fuller Volkswagen Special – Built / Debuted in 1957 (6)
- 17: The 1949 Edwards R-26 / R26 Sports Car: “American Sports Car For European Competition” (5)
- 17: The Fibersport Sport Car: Car Life, February 1954 (0)
- 16: Dave Petersen’s Byers SR100 – The 1965 Snedecker Special (3)
- 15: Maverick Sport Car: Car Life, February 1954 (4)
- 15: The 1949 Edwards R-26 / R26 Sports Car: “The Most Beautiful Automobile Ever Built In America” (8)
- 14: The Celebration of Spohn: Germany Builds a Post-War Rocket (Motor Trend, June 1952) (2)
- 13: Plastic Porsches? How Could This Be? Science and Mechanics: June 1958 (6)
- 13: Disneyland’s Autopia Ride – A “Fiberfest” Extravaganza!: Road & Track, September 1955 (2)
- 13: The Darrin Sports Car: Road & Track, February 1953 (1)
- 13: Venus – From The Lone Star State (Motor Trend, May 1954) (0)
- 12: Introducing the CRV: Cycolac Research Vehicle – By Marbon Chemicals (1965) (4)
- 12: Rollie Langston and Jim Byers – The Byers SR100 Project Begins (2)
- 11: The Mota Glasspar G2 Electric Car – “A Prototype Car Of The Future” (6)
- 11: LaDawri Logos Are Here!!! LaDawri Logos Are Here!!! (1)
- 10: Bill Burke Weighs In On Hot Rods vs Sports Cars: “The Vanguard of Hot Rod Thought” (1)
- 10: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Steve Steers “Victress S1A Special” (3)
- 09: The 1954 Chicagoan / Triplex / Lightning / Ketcham Sports Car Brochure (3)
- 09: Howard “Dutch” Darrin And His 1946 Fiberglass Car: The “Rock Star” of Fiberglass (2)
- 09: 1953 Grantham Stardust Brochure – “Pioneers in Advanced Custom Styling” (1)
- 09: Plexiglas is Tops! – Automotive Style, That is… (4)
- 08: Victress Logos Are Here!!! Victress Logos Are Here!!! (4)
- 07: The Mota Glasspar G2 Electric Car – A Hybrid Car Before Its Time (4)
- 06: Glasspar G2 Fastback Sports Car (3)
- 06: The Carl Macauley Glasspar G2 – “Lost” Cover Car Of Road & Track, January 1953 (0)
- 05: The World’s First American Bantam Fiberglass Sports Car – The Al Jost Special (6)
- 04: Richard Arbib’s 1956 “Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car” – The Future is Now (4)
- 03: The Probe 16 – The Adams Brother’s Futuristic Concept Car From 1969 (UK) (4)
- 03: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: The “Troy Sports Special” and the “Bosley GT Mark 1” (0)
- 03: The Introduction of the Kaiser Darrin Sports Car: Kaiser Dealer News – January 31st, 1953 (0)
- 03: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Dick and Jeanette Foster’s “1954 Woodill Wildfire Roadster” (1)
- 02: The “Cliff-Diving” Glasspar G2 Body: Look Magazine (November 3rd, 1953) (2)
- 01: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Geoff Hacker’s “Covington Tiburon” (1)
- 01: Who’s Number 2 In Fiberglass? Henry J. Kaiser of Course! (1942-1946) (3)
- 01: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Tom and Barb Chandler’s “Glasspar G2 Special” (0)
- September 2011 (42)
- 30: 1952 E. J. Tobin BMW 328 “Aluminum Bodied” Special: Part 2 (1)
- 30: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Clark Mitchell’s “Almquist Sportster” (0)
- 30: The Italia GTC Sports Car – A Jim Simpson Design, Extraordinaire (6)
- 30: Build Your Own Sports Car: Wasp / Skorpion Brochure (1951-1952) (1)
- 29: The Shark Roadster – Renault Based Sports Car From St. Petersburg, Florida (6)
- 29: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Petersen Automotive Museum’s “1953 Bosley GT Mark I ” (2)
- 29: The TD Mark I / Dr. William Fort Byers SR100 Special (3)
- 29: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Jim and Lea Ann Robinson’s “Guy Mabee Victress Special” (1)
- 28: Meet the “Rogue.” America’s First Renault Based Fiberglass Sports Car (1954) (3)
- 28: The Wildfire Buick – Custom Built by Twombly Buick in Compton, California (3)
- 27: Dan Post’s “Volkswagen: 9 Lives Later:” Alken and Devin Sports Car History (1)
- 27: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Guy Dirkin’s 1959 Kellison JR5 Coupe (3)
- 27: Introducing the 1955 Flajole Forerunner – A Hardtop Convertible Bar None! (3)
- 27: The Debut of the Kurtis 500-M: Press Release December 15th, 1954 (4)
- 26: Sports Car or Custom? The Lelton Partain Sport Custom (3)
- 26: Synthetic (Glasspar G2) Body: Time Magazine, February 18th, 1952 (0)
- 26: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Stan and Ann Fowler’s Woodill Wildfire (0)
- 26: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: Ben Warren’s Kurtis Kraft 500 M (0)
- 25: The Cars of the Milwaukee Masterpiece: DeWayne Ashmead’s Glasspar G2 (1)
- 25: Les Weber’s “Shark out of Water:” Hot Rod Magazine, June 1964 (1)
- 25: The Milwaukee Masterpiece Concours d’ Elegance: A Milestone in Vintage ‘Glass (1)
- 23: The History of California ‘Glass Cars and The Ricker Glasspar G2 – As Told By Dean Moon (4)
- 23: Tom McCahill Introduces The 175 HP Ardun Ford Flathead (5)
- 22: The Jim Collins Devin Special – A Fantastic Race Car In The Making (4)
- 22: Rocky Fowler’s Glasspar G2 – A Car In Search Of Its History (3)
- 22: The Wayne Kady Sport Custom – A Young Man’s Dream Becomes A Reality (5)
- 21: Strother MacMinn’s LeMans Coupe – Style, Design, Beauty, and Grace All Rolled Into One Great Car (8)
- 21: Richard Arbib: A Car Is Born – International Motor Sports Show, 1952 and 1953 (4)
- 21: Plastic Henry J: The Kaiser Darrin KF-161 – Popular Science, May 1953 (0)
- 20: Meet The Conquest – The Second LaDawri Coachcraft Brochure of 1957 (0)
- 20: 1961 Smith Six – One Of The Last 1950’s Sport Customs Built in America (3)
- 19: The Mysteries of the Dutch Darrin Designed DKW Flintridge And The Woodill Fiber-Glass Body Corporation (6)
- 19: The 1965 Cal Johnson Byers SR100 Chevy Special (3)
- 18: The Kurtis 500 M (McCullough) Debuts – One Fast, Smart Cadillac Powered Special For 1955 (1)
- 17: The Art Center: Industrial Design / Automotive Division: Road & Track – September 1955 (1)
- 17: Plastic Fantastic! The Cord Sportsman by Glenn Pray Debuts: 1964 (2)
- 15: Eric Irwin’s Lancer: “The Cleanest Two-Seater Roadster That The Post-War World Has Produced” (1)
- 14: Born and Bred in the USA: The Fiberglass Allard Palm Beach by Anchorage Plastics, Rhode Island (7)
- 12: The 1937 Gougeon Streamliner Debuts – Our First Test Drive (2)
- 12: The Four Cylinder Club Introduces… The Kaiser Darrin Sports Car (3)
- 10: GoneAutos Introduces – “Forgotten Fiberglass: The Best American Car Story Never Told” (3)
- 07: The Magnificent Milwaukee Masterpiece – Part 1: The Celebration of Fiberglass (2)
- August 2011 (1)
- June 2011 (32)
- 27: Return of “The Big Orange Moose” – The Maverick Restoration Begins (6)
- 26: The Johnny Gonet Meteor SR1 Special (Car Speed and Style, June 1958) (1)
- 25: The Jomar Sports Car – Fiberglass or Aluminum – Your Choice! (1)
- 25: “Forgotten Fiberglass” Saves Marriages Across The World: Moving Day Part 2 (8)
- 24: The DKW Flintridge – Howard “Dutch” Darrin’s Last (Built) Sports Car (6)
- 24: Devin’s Twin Devils: Type “C” And “S” Sports Cars (Road & Track, January 1955) (2)
- 23: Hardtops For Everyone – Eight is Enough for Bill Tritt and Glasspar (2)
- 22: Beau Hickory Does It Again! Is It A Dune Buggy or Sports Car? The Virgo Is Both! (4)
- 21: The Badges Are Coming….The Badges Are Coming (And Are Now Here!) (2)
- 21: The Gene Hersom Allied Duesenberg Special – Kay Kimes Remembers (8)
- 20: Glasspar’s New “Ascot.” The Latest Model From A Pioneering Fiberglass Firm (Road & Track, April 1955) (2)
- 20: The Bosley Mark I Sports Car (Road & Track, August 1955) (3)
- 20: The “Big Bang” of Fiberglass: Part 2 – Sports Car Bombshell in Detroit (Motor Trend, November 1951) (0)
- 19: 1939 / 1940 Plastic Pontiac – First Plastic Car In The World (1)
- 19: Dean Moon’s Moonbeam – One Superfast Devin Sports Car (1)
- 19: The Darrin Competition Sports Car – Voila! Introducing the Kaiser Darrin (PIC Magazine, January 1953) (0)
- 18: The Bangert Manta Ray – Road & Track’s “Special of the Month” (June 1955) (0)
- 18: The Dick Jones Meteor SR100 (Road and Track, April 1955) (0)
- 15: The “el Tiburon” Brochure – Where There’s A Crowd….There’s an el Tiburon (0)
- 15: My First Fiberglass Car – The 1962 Tiburon “Shark” Roadster (3)
- 14: Beau Hickory and Zodiac Motors Introduces The “Taurus” – That’s A Lotta Bull! (0)
- 14: Ted Van Arsdale’s Glasspar G2 – A Glasspar Classic! (0)
- 14: Larry Eave Builds a “Meteor SR 100” Bomb: Northwest Rods, October 1957 (8)
- 13: A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words – The Dr. Richards Allied Falcon Special (0)
- 10: “Forgotten Fiberglass” Saves Marriages Across the World: Moving Day Part 1 (2)
- 10: Mission Possible! Nick Whitlow Catches a Piranha! (3)
- 09: Hot Rods and Fiberglass Cars: Daniel Strohl and Hemmings Motor News, July 2011 (0)
- 08: John Finehout’s Glasspar G2 Special – One Glorious Glasspar G2 (Ford Times, December 1953) (0)
- 08: Design Heritage Of The Bangert “Manta Ray” – Meet The Maserati That Raced Again (Car Craft, May 1954) (0)
- 06: For The Love Of Fiberglass Specials: Bob Peterson And The Tale Of His Kellison J2 (0)
- 05: Chicago’s First Sports Car: Part 2 – The Chicagoan Debuts! (Chicago Magazine, June 1954) (0)
- 01: The Glasspar G2 Mameco Racecar: Pebble Beach Road Race 1953 (1)
- May 2011 (34)
- 31: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s The Legendary 1954 Elwood Cauffman Bangert Manta Ray – Part 1 (1)
- 30: The Vale Fiberglass Sports Car (Auto Speed & Sport, January 1953) (0)
- 30: And Now For Something…….Completely Different: Dinosaur Hunting in Florida – Vintage Road Side Attraction (0)
- 27: Long, Low, and Lively: The Edwards America Sports Car (Mechanics Today, March 1954) (0)
- 26: The Devin Bodied Morgensen Special (Sportscar Quarterly, Fall 1958) (0)
- 26: The “Big Bang” of Fiberglass: Part 1 – The Walt Woron Editorial (Motor Trend, November 1951) (0)
- 25: World’s Most Beautiful Sports Car: The Byers SR-100 Special (Road and Track, February 1957) (0)
- 24: “Glasser First Class” – Fiberglass Supply Pioneer: Taylor & Art, Inc., Plastics (0)
- 24: Presenting the IMP – Lost Fiberglass Car From The 1940’s (0)
- 23: Julius Rose And The Three Little Cars: Comet, Marvel And Featherlite (Bob Cunningham, 2011) (0)
- 23: The Sportstar is Here! The Sportstar is Here! Don Anderson’s Treasure Trove of Fiberglass History (0)
- 22: Wildfire In The Barn – Doug Shinstine’s Ultimate Fiberglass Find (1)
- 22: The Lost Bill Tritt Interview – Jean Poirier 1993 (Union, West Virginia) (0)
- 21: Roadster in Glass – Joe and Henry Smith’s Fabulous Fiberglass Sports Car (Hot Rod Magazine, April 1957) (0)
- 21: Woody’s Woodill Wildfire – By Glenn Brummer – Part 2 (The Mile Post, January/February 1998) (1)
- 20: Virgo…The Two In One Sports Car / Dune Buggy (Sports Car World, February 1970) (0)
- 20: Chicago’s First Sports Car: Part 1 – The Chicagoan By Frank Hinger, Robert Owens, and Triplex Industries (0)
- 19: Plastic Cars? Not Now! (Popular Science, July 1952) (0)
- 18: “Car Buff Tony Curtis Pitches For Toledo Premier of ‘Johnny Dark’ (Toledo Blade Newspaper, November 22nd, 1953) (1)
- 18: “The Thrill of Speed” by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky (International Motor Sports Show, 1952) (0)
- 17: Woody’s Woodill Wildfire – By Glenn Brummer: Part 1 (The Mile Post, January/February 1998) (0)
- 17: The Bill Disbrow Glasspar G2 Special (Mechanix Illustrated, October 1953) (0)
- 16: Kerry Griffin’s 1974 Kelmark GT – The Fiberglass Celebration Continues With The Griffin Family (3)
- 16: The 1957 Dr. Richards Allied Falcon Special – The Kunicki Family Treasure (0)
- 15: The 1946 Project Y “Forty Six” Stout – Oldest Known Surviving Fiberglass Car (2)
- 14: The Hirsch Sports Car Special – Mysterion Extraordinare (1)
- 12: The Ultra New And Mighty Almquist “Thunderbolt” (Almquist Catalog, 1963) (0)
- 11: The Hillman LaDawri Daytona Special – A Car 50 Years In The Making (1)
- 05: Plastic Powerhouse! The Birth of Glasspar G2 Racing and The Rise of MAMECO – Part 2 (0)
- 04: Buying a “Sportscar Special” (Modern Sports Car Series, 1957) (1)
- 03: The Advertising Strategy of the Atlas / Allied Fiberglass Company (0)
- 03: Bill Tritt: Designer, Builder, Entrepreneur, and Fiberglass Visionary (1917-2011): Part 3 (0)
- 02: The Victress S5 “Volvo Special” (Sportscar Specials, Trend Book 178, 1958) (0)
- 01: The Woodill Wildfire Fastback Coupe Debuts! (Motor Life, February 1956) (0)
- April 2011 (26)
- 30: The Alken D2 – One Of The First VW Fiberglass Bodied Sports Cars: You’ve Never Seen/Driven/Owned Anything Like This! (1958) (1)
- 27: 1952 E.J. Tobin BMW 328 Special: Part 1 (0)
- 26: The Eric Hauser / Bob Powell Victress S1A – Bakersfield, California (May 20th, 1956) (1)
- 25: The Customized Willys Aero and Johnny Dark – By Derek Redmond (0)
- 21: Demonstrating The Strength of Fiberglass: Woodill Wildfire – Coverage at the 1954 World Motor Sports Show, New York (0)
- 17: The Glasspar Bodied “Volvo Sport” – The Little Fox (Sports Cars Illustrated, October 1955) (0)
- 14: Ford Dealer J.A. Wright’s Glasspar G2 Special, Covington, Virginia Born and Bred (Ford Times, September 1953) (2)
- 13: Boy Wonders And Their Magic Word – “Fiberglass” (0)
- 12: Modern Motors Glasspar G2 Special: St. Joseph, Missouri Born and Bred (Ford Times, August 1954) (1)
- 11: Let’s Celebrate Steve Steers’ Victress Sports Car – 50 Years in the Making! (Hemmings Muscle Machines, May 2011) (0)
- 10: The Mysteries of the K.C. Fiberglass Sports Car From Teterboro, New Jersey (0)
- 10: Discontinued Fiberglass Sports Cars: The Glasspar Ascot, G2, Vale, Wasp, and More…(Auto Craftsman, June-July 1958) (0)
- 07: Mystery Crosley Based Sports Car Surfaces In Oregon (0)
- 06: The 1953 Gazelle / 1954 Navajo Sports Car – New Jersey Bred and Built: Part 1 (0)
- 05: America’s First Dragstrip: Santa Ana Drag Strip – Orange County Airport (1950-1959) (0)
- 05: The Little Car With The Big Future – R. Stanley Griffin’s 1949 “lMP” – A “Devil” of a Car (0)
- 05: Bill Tritt: Designer, Builder, Entrepreneur, and Fiberglass Visionary (1917-2011): Part 2 (0)
- 04: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 5 – The Victress S4 Sports Car (0)
- 04: Mel Keys And His Glasspar Ascot II Design (March, 1955) (0)
- 03: Glasspar’s Ascot – Fiberglass Body Pioneer Unveils Latest Model (Speed Mechanics, June-July 1955) (0)
- 03: LaDawri – Beauty That’s More Than Skin Deep! (Sportscar Graphic, June 1960) (0)
- 02: The Vaughan-Singer Glasspar G2: William F. Vaughan’s First Singer Special (0)
- 02: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 4 – The Meteor SR-1 Sports Roadster (0)
- 02: It’s A Wildfire! It’s A Glasspar! It’s A Shorty Post Frame! The Missing Link Emerges…(Road and Track, February 1953) (0)
- 01: Introducing the Willys Wildfire (Time Magazine, February 2nd, 1953) (0)
- 01: Extra…Extra…Read All About It!!! World Premier of Johnny Dark Hits Toledo Ohio (June 16th, 1954) (0)
- March 2011 (18)
- 31: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 3 – The Bangert “Manta Ray” Roadster (0)
- 31: Bill Tritt: Designer, Builder, Entrepreneur, and Fiberglass Visionary (1917-2011): Part 1 (1)
- 30: The Kool Kellison J-4: Griffith Borgeson on Hot Rods (Fawcett 1959) (1)
- 30: Plastic Prize Winner: William Scott and His Victress S1 (Auto Craftsman, June-July 1958) (0)
- 30: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 2 – The Sorrell SR-190 Coupe (1)
- 29: Glasspar G2 Wins Pinewood Derby! Another First For Glasspar Sports Cars (0)
- 29: Fiberglass Buyers Guide (Car Craft, March 1956): Part 1 – The Woodill Wildfire (0)
- 28: Jerry Sutton’s Victress C3 Coupe: Griffith Borgeson on Hot Rods (Fawcett 1959) (0)
- 28: Front and Rear Styling For The Fiberglass Body (Car Craft, March 1956) (0)
- 26: Mystery Sport Custom: Frank Cornell Finds The Sabyan Special (4)
- 25: Plaster Is Faster – A Plastic Sports Car is Born: The 1954 Chicagoan (0)
- 09: More Emerges On The BMC Singer Sports Car (Motorsport, October 1952) (0)
- 06: The 1952 Yankee Clipper Debuts in San Francisco – A Glasspar G2 Bodied Sports Car (1)
- 06: Designs That Influenced The Styling Of The Victress S1 And Glasspar G2: Part 3 – The 1939 BMW 328 Mille Miglia “Buegelfalte” Roadster (0)
- 05: A Visit With “Fiberglassics” And…The Brooks Stevens Designed Sea Lark Boat (0)
- 05: The Vale Wright Sports Car (Motor Sports World, December 5th, 1952) (0)
- 02: Jess Nelson’s MG Special: Star Of The 1957 Oakland National Roadster Show (0)
- 01: The Glasspar Ascot Debuts! (Motor Trend, February 1955) (0)
- February 2011 (35)
- 28: Chicago Built Custom Fiberglass Sportster: The Frank Fisher Enterprises Special (0)
- 27: The “Second” Debut of the Woodill Wildfire: (Motor Trend, August 1953) (0)
- 25: The Devin Panhard Debuts (Sports Cars Illustrated, September 1955) (0)
- 24: The Buchanan-Arnt Singer Special: (Car Craft, August 1954) (0)
- 22: Bill Burke’s Allied “Glass Coupe” (Auto Sport Review, July 1953) (2)
- 22: Designs That Influenced The Styling Of The Victress S1 And Glasspar G2: Part 2 – The 1939/1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Roadster (0)
- 19: Designs That Influenced The Styling Of The Victress S1 And Glasspar G2: Part 1 – The Jaguar XK120 (0)
- 17: George Lippincott’s Nic-L-Silver Prototype Pioneer Electric Car – Body & Car By Victress (1)
- 17: The Grantham Stardust – “Hollywood Traffic Stopper” – Motor Trend, September 1953 (0)
- 15: Perry Fuller’s Singer Special: Prelude To Singer’s Fiberglass SMX Sports Roadster – An Article By Peter McKercher (1)
- 15: Sport Custom Cars of the Postwar Era: Part 2 – John Gunnell’s Sport Custom Article (2)
- 15: “Fiberglass Funnies” – Featuring A “Sorrell” Sports Car – Car Craft, February 1954 (0)
- 15: Customizing Your Victress C2 Coupe – The Howard Green Victress C2 “Custom” Roadster (0)
- 13: Sport Custom Cars of the Postwar Era: Part 1 – Allow Me To Introduce You To Author John Gunnell (0)
- 13: The 1952 BMC Singer Sports Car – Kjell Qvale Reminisces (0)
- 12: Frank Cornell Finds A Series 1 Woodill Wildfire – (Scale Model, That is) (0)
- 12: Noel Bangert’s First Car: The Stag (Hop-Up / Motor Life, March 1954) (1)
- 12: The Blowfish Special – Mysterion Extraordinaire (0)
- 11: Henry Covington’s Tiburon Coupe – “A Shark You Can Park” – September 1961 Road & Track (1)
- 10: First Annual Forgotten Fiberglass Concours d’Elegance – June 30th, 2009 (0)
- 10: The 1952 BMC Singer Sports Car – Kjell Qvale’s Fiberglass Sports Car Wonder (0)
- 08: Want To Build A Sports Car? Robert Jackson Does: Part 1 (Hop-Up April 1953) (0)
- 08: The Norm Jensen Glasspar G2 – A Magnificent Build By A Special Guy (1)
- 07: “Fiberglass Funnies” – Hop-Up Magazine, April 1953 (0)
- 07: Devin Introduces the Devin “D” – A Smart Choice For A Stylish Sports Car (0)
- 06: The Dennis Blietz Special – A New Mystery Fiberglass Car For You (0)
- 06: Noel Bangert (Marshall) on Car Design – “His Footnote on Fins” (0)
- 05: The Designs of Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky: Motor Trend September 1949 (6)
- 05: Perry Zavitz’s Chronology of Postwar Automotive Manufacturers: Part 1 – 1945 Thru 1948 (0)
- 04: Automodello Introduces 1:43 Scale Victress in Summer 2011 – Pre-Order Yours Today! (0)
- 03: The Victress C3 Convertible – Lost Victress C3 Roadster Prototype (0)
- 02: The 1975 Mechanix Illustrated Urba Car: Part 2 – Paul Brantner’s Urbacar (0)
- 02: The Lancer Vs The Glasspar G2: March 1952 Popular Science Showdown (0)
- 01: Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Forgotten Fiberglass Now Over 1 Year Old! (0)
- 01: Nick Adams and Natalie Wood’s Lancer – AKA the Dean Banks Lancer Special (0)
- January 2011 (30)
- 31: Victress S1 Mystery Car – Test Your Talents At Research (0)
- 30: The 1975 Mechanix Illustrated Urba Car: Part 1 – The Urba Car Story (2)
- 29: Wildest Thing In Glass – The Road and Track LeMans Coupe (0)
- 28: Styled With Glass! – Jim Webb’s “Savage” Debuts in 1958 (2)
- 27: The Maverick Sportster Debuts in 1952 – “Largest Fiberglass Body Yet Constructed” (1)
- 26: Early Devin Ad 1956 – “ A New Devin Fibreglass Body – $295” (0)
- 25: “Sportstar Associates” of San Diego, California – Marion O. Martin… Where Are You? (0)
- 24: Jerry Sutton’s Victress C3 – Feature Car – Hot Rod Magazine July 1960 (0)
- 23: The Mystical and Many Cars of the Universal Plastics Company (1)
- 22: The Plot Thickens! The 1964 “Bohada Special” From Buffalo, New York (0)
- 21: The Cars of Milwaukee Masterpiece: DeWayne Ashmead’s Cadillac Powered Glasspar G2 (0)
- 20: Re-Birth of the Glasspar G2 Logo – Get Yours Today – While Supplies Last! (0)
- 19: And Now For Something…….Completely Different: The Life and Times of the Chuck Tatum Car Trailer (0)
- 18: Let’s Design a LaDawri Castillian – and Maybe a Victress C3 Too! The Talented Designs of Keith Kaucher (1)
- 17: Installing a Small Dynamo on the California Sports Special: A Tom Chandler Design Variation (0)
- 16: The World’s Fastest Wildfire – The 1955 Turbine (Jet) Powered Woodill Wildfire (1)
- 15: Collectibles From the Movie “Johnny Dark” – Lobby Cards (0)
- 14: The 1955 California Sports Special – Now On Display At the Sarasota Classic Car Museum (0)
- 13: The 1964 H. M. Striger Volvo Special – A Mystery Car No More (0)
- 12: The 1959 Almquist El-Morocco – “Only $29.27 a Month Puts You In a New Custom Sports Car!” (0)
- 11: Devin Brochure – A Terrific Approach to Building One Impressive Sports Car! (0)
- 10: And Now For Something…….Completely Different: Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky – Designer Extraordinaire (1)
- 09: Build a Woodill Wildfire in 14 Hours or Less – The 1954 Bert Newport Special (0)
- 08: The Celebration of Fiberglass Continues: “Fabulous Fiberglass” at the Milwaukee Masterpiece Concours d’Elegance in August 2011 (0)
- 07: Who’s Got an Ax(le) to Grind? You Do If You Have a Ford-Based 1950’s Special (0)
- 05: How to Build a Fiberglass Sports Car Body – The First Fiberglass Book Debuts (0)
- 04: Bud Kennedy’s Bangert Manta Ray Special – “As Fine As They Come” (0)
- 03: Track Kraft Debuts in 1960 – Past and Future United (2)
- 02: The Johnny Dark Victress S1 Roadster: Part 3: The Story of Mack Hellings, Virgil Rice and Bob Stelling (0)
- 01: The LaDawri Conquest – Build a Conquest – Become a Conquestidor! (0)
- December 2010 (7)
- 30: The Jean Poirier Glasspar G2 – A Most Excellent Glasspar Special and a Wonderful Story to Boot! (0)
- 29: The Johnny Dark Victress S1 Roadster: Part 2: Movie Talk (0)
- 28: The 1953 Don Jones / Don James Special – 1953 Pebble Beach Road Race Participant (0)
- 27: Which Fiberglass Sports Car Appeared First in 1950’s Magazines? Meet the 1951 Lancer by Eric Irwin (0)
- 26: The 1955 Burch Roark Special – The Car That Nearly Was – And What A Car It Would Have Been! (1)
- 23: Vote For Glasspar! Cast Your Vote for the Glasspar G2 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (0)
- 20: The Johnny Dark Victress S1 Roadster: Part 1: “Pretty Enough To Be A Movie Star” (1)
- November 2010 (3)
- October 2010 (14)
- 31: Plastic Powerhouse! The Birth of Glasspar G2 Racing and The Rise of MAMECO – Part 1 (0)
- 26: Allow Me To Introduce You To….. Hal Brown and His Allied Swallow Sports Coupe (0)
- 19: Petersen Automotive Museum – Fiberglass Day: Part 3 – Merrill Powell and Victress Take the Stage (0)
- 18: All Hail The Mysterions….A New Mystery Car Just For You… (1)
- 17: The Quest for Patents – LaDawri, Venus, Glasspar, Victress, and Others… (0)
- 16: Byers SR100 in Wireframe – Who Could Ask For More??? (0)
- 15: Hot Rods vs Sports Cars – The Debate Goes On… (0)
- 14: Petersen Automotive Museum – Fiberglass Day: Part 2 – Frank Hecox From Glasspar Remembers (0)
- 12: Let’s Design A Car – The Long Lost Buell Custom Coach Sketchbook (0)
- 11: Petersen Automotive Museum – Fiberglass Day: Part 1 (0)
- 10: “Forgotten Fiberglass” In The News…..Tom Cotter’s New Book Hits the Streets (0)
- 09: From Soup to Nuts…Let’s Build a Falcon (UK) Sports Car (1)
- 08: She’s Real Fine…Jerry Wood’s Glasspar G2 – And Rodney Packwood Too… (0)
- 07: Mysteries of Fiberglass… (0)
- July 2010 (3)
- June 2010 (4)
- May 2010 (19)
- 31: The Heritage of Kit Cars – The 1924 Mercury Sport Roadster (0)
- 30: The Van Etta Motors Special – Meagan and Julian Watkins Glasspar G2 (0)
- 28: Dreams of What Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda Been….The Boyd Lindberg Special (0)
- 27: 1950′s Controversy: Hot Rods vs Sports Cars – Part 1 (0)
- 26: Who Can Guess the Name of This Car??? It’s None Other Than the Harry Whipp Victress S1A Sports Special (1)
- 25: Good Morning Children…Take Out Your Weekly Reader And Let’s Talk…Glasspar! (0)
- 24: What’s The Buzz About? Introducing the 1951 Skorpion and its Prototype – The Wasp (0)
- 23: Stan Crawford’s Allied / Atlas Swallow – A Mid-Restoration Man’s Dream (1)
- 20: And Now For Something…….Completely Different: The Dangers of Driving a Fiberglass Sports Car in the 1950′s (0)
- 19: Honoring Chuck Tatum – Iwo Jima Veteran and “The Cars of Johnny Dark” (0)
- 17: The (Tom) Chandler Ford Flathead V8 Generator Solution (0)
- 16: Modern Plastics February 1953 – A “Gaggle” of Glass For You to Review (0)
- 15: Tom and Barb Chandler and Their Glasspar G2: Harold “Shorty” Post Frame #001 (0)
- 14: For The Victress Owner Who Has (Almost) Everything…. The Stylish Boyce-Smith Terminal Box (0)
- 11: Glasspar G2 Sports Car Brochure (1953-1954): Setting the Style in the Custom Sport Car Field (0)
- 09: 1951 MOMA Exhibit – 8 Automobiles: Celebrating the Design of the 1946 Cisitalia 202 Coupe – Part 2 (0)
- 08: The Birth of the Glasspar G2: The 1951 Brooks Boxer – Part 1 (0)
- 02: Victress Brochure: 1954 – Wanna Buy a Victress S1A, S4, or S5? Order Your Brochure Today… (0)
- 01: Vintage Accessories: Get Those Hubcaps Guys and Gals!!! (1)
- April 2010 (24)
- 30: “Sports Car Design” No. 1 – John Bond’s Road and Track Series on Building Your Own Sports Car (0)
- 28: Johnny Dark – The Real Race: Santa Barbara – Goleta Airport: Labor Day 1953 (0)
- 27: Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2010: The 1955 California Sports Special (0)
- 26: Build a Woodill Wildfire Sports Car – in 4 hours or less (lunch break included!!!) (0)
- 25: Vintage Accessories: Voltage Drop and The Educated (Spindle) Nut (1)
- 21: Alan and Jen Mortlock’s Glasspar G2 Special (2)
- 20: Eric Irwin and his Lancer(s) – One of the First Production Fiberglass Sports Cars (0)
- 19: Carlisle Import & Kit Nationals – May 21st-23rd 2010 (0)
- 18: Mysterion Sport Specials – Establishing a Class of Forgotten Fiberglass Cars (0)
- 15: And Now For Something….Completely Different: The 1946 Bill Burke Belly Tank Streamliner (0)
- 14: 8 Automobiles – 1951 Museum of Modern Art Exhibition (Celebrating the Design of the 1946 Cisitalia 202 Coupe) (1)
- 13: Allied Swallow vs 1946 Cisitalia 202GT – The 94″ WB Amelia Island Duel (0)
- 12: Where are Vintage Fiberglass Enthusiasts Going Next??? How about the Belfry…(“Boats in the Belfry”, That Is) (1)
- 11: Now Showing!!! Johnny Dark, 1954 (Universal Studios) Fabulous Fiberglass Film (3)
- 10: Petersen Automotive Museum: Fantasies in Fiberglass – 2010 Exhibition – Part 2 (0)
- 09: The Cars of Amelia Island 2010: Guy Dirkin and His Byers SR100 (0)
- 08: The Gisler Special – A Kaiser “Mysterion” Extraordinaire (0)
- 07: Win a “Fabulous Woodill Wildfire Sportscar” – The 1953 Petersen Motorama (0)
- 06: The Saga of Spohn – LeSabre Influenced Designs for American Customs (0)
- 05: Colani – Artist, Sculptor, Car Designer, and Futurist – and Fiberglass Innovator Too! (0)
- 04: Stan Mott – Illustrator, Designer, Artist, Friend, and Car Enthusiast Extraordinaire (1)
- 03: Hagerty’s Magazine Highlights Forgotten Fiberglass Website (and other cool websites too!) (0)
- 02: Manual of Building Plastic Cars – Part 1 (1)
- 01: M.A. Adams’ Meteor SR1 – An Astronomical Achievement (0)
- March 2010 (5)
- 31: Glasspar (Bill Tritt) Designed Fiberglass Volvo Sport – The Volvo P1900 (1)
- 30: Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2010: Featured Forgotten Fiberglass Article (0)
- 29: The Cars of Amelia Island 2010: Steve Steers and his Victress S1A (0)
- 28: Skorpion vs Kaiser Darrin – Torrey Pines Road Race November 1954 (0)
- 27: Amelia Island Highlights – Forgotten Fiberglass Hits the Lawn With Great Reception (0)
- February 2010 (3)
- January 2010 (2)
- December 2009 (11)
- 30: One More Adventure for 2009 – CRV and Dennis Kazmerowski (0)
- 25: The Cars of Amelia Island 2010 – Phil Fleming’s 1958 Devin Special (0)
- 24: The First Postwar American Hood Scoop (0)
- 22: Lost Car: The Jules Heumann Singer Special…3000 Hours of Excellence (0)
- 21: Masano Sports Car – Three Tailed Wonder From Reading PA (0)
- 13: Glasspar Guys – The Quest for Research (0)
- 06: The Kaiser Mysterion – Darren Swanson’s Wonderful Find (1)
- 05: Foreign Fiberglass… 1954 Allard Clipper and Margaret Woolsey (0)
- 03: Fabulous Foreign Fiberglass (1)
- 02: Lost Car: Where O Art Thou Victress S1A…. (0)
- 01: Member’s Showcase: John Knebel’s Glasspar G2 (0)
- November 2009 (11)
- 30: Lost Car: Where is The “Ken Mace Woodill Wildfire”???? (7)
- 29: Saving the “Lost Motor Trend Victress Special”… (0)
- 28: Chassis 1, Chassis 2, and a… (0)
- 27: Rise of the Mysterions… (1)
- 26: Amelia Island Concours d’ Elegance – Forgotten Fiberglass Class (0)
- 25: Introducing….The Glasspar Section of our Website (0)
- 20: Attack of the Clones… (0)
- 19: Oh Where Oh Where Are These Fiberglass Cars….. (0)
- 18: A New “Mysterion”…Just for you… (1)
- 17: Overview of Forgotten Fiberglass Website and Fiberglass Forums Discussion Board (0)
- 16: Welcome to….Forgotten Fiberglass (3)
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