Hot Rods how do you feel about fiberglass hot rods???

So you want me to ditch all of my glass front caps and my Willy’s and my vette ??????????? No just kidding. I say it is builders choice. I have seen just as many shitty built steel rods as glass. In the racing world if it’s fast or wins a lot -like it or not it gets a pass.
There was glass in the early years also and there were some pretty crude early race cars. But we all were doing the best we could /or can with what we have. Each to his own.

 

I’ll stack my A&C Willy’s up against any one. And every person that has looked at it thought it was a steel car with glass front cap until I pointed it out. The doors hinges and trunk etc are all very well reinforced and shut like steel. No double thud fiberglass noise. Again each to his own. For me it was about saving time not the money. I’d do it again.i have no idea how old the vette body is. Came from Onata TN many many years ago. Like well over 30. I have everything. Was thinking race car but who knows.

 

I'm one of the old farts, not part of the new generation, I like steel hot rods, glass hot rods and fordor's. HRP

2 of my multi door cars.

 

When I was a lot younger, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a fiberglass body, because I didn't really want a retirement project to finish. If I had found a steel body, I would have still been filling holes, making and welding in panels, etc. 25 years later. When a car is all finished and painted, I don't care if it's made of steel, fiberglass or cheese.
Only drawback that fiberglass has had on the hobby is all the "detectives" who go around knocking on cars at shows proclaiming "Yep, it's 'glass!".

 

Boy, I don't know. If I ever saw that kind of distortion in a reflection on the side of my car, I'd do something about it.

 

So far, you are the only one here that is using terms like "kit car"... and you seem to keep coming back to stir the pot.
Surely you can get your head around the fact that original steel bodies are a finite resource, and will command a higher value than glass bodies. We can have as many reproductions as we want.
Case closed, Sherlock......

 

We can only wish!

 

I got the old er brother... looked for ever for a 32 and finally bought a 31

 

lol you can't answer a simple question..... so you're right... case closed I can't help you...

 

yeah, I was hoping that part went away..... and the reason for the thread was to find out how the peeps here feel about them... I sold my glass 32 roadster not long ago....I post a pic of it here and it got took down.... so so much for the run what ya brung deal... then i got told I needed a macs catalog because I don't know what year the parts on my cars go to....lol

 

1). Yes
2). No
3). Less
4). No
5). Less
6). Yes and No. Depends what you prefer.

Any more simple questions?

 

here is some deep thoughts and feelings about glass cars .I drove a steel 26 T roadster for years often heard people say it was a glass car when obviously it was not.had a glass 32 roadster never when I drove it did I think if this car was steel it would be a lot more fun.I now have a 36 phaeton that I have not drove a bunch still getting it really road worthy but to my surprise at the gas stations still been asked several times by people if it is fiberglass. once had a buddy tell me if its a wescot or brookville body there both reproductions just made out of different materials. I was a few hundred miles from home and needed a bolt. had a guy at an auto parts place ask me if my roadster was a kit car . told him it was a fiberglass glass body & a few things about the car. He said does it have a VW motor ? I kinda laughed said no a 350 chevy. He said its not a kit car then. I have a 32 5 window unchopped unfilled easy to tell its an original body been asked about it alot of times. the general public can't tell a glass car from a steel car but always ask at the gas station.my feelings are I would rather drive a glass car than be sitting at home wishing I had a steel car. But a steel A or 32 roadster is still on my wish list but the right glass car at the right price could end up in my garage

 

more what I was after was a personal feed back... when you see a cool car get interested in buying it.... the add says nothing about fiberglass... you drive to go getit and it's a glass car, the owner says he didn't that it was glass... do you buy it anyway... or do you walk....????

I wanna buy a dozen or so more old cars.... but I want them to be worth some thing when I'm dead... and I want them to be worth what I pay, or more... I also noticed on most adds... the first thing they say is henry steel... but if it's glass, it's the last, if they say at all...

so the thread changed from what do "YOU" think about glass vs steel cars... to me hating on other peoples cars... I've bought many glass cars and we built many at my streetrod shop... gotta say this.... they were a little harder to sell... but I don't have any now....

so in my opinion... using 32 roadster... a glass one will start with a 2...like 25000, a brookville 45000, and a henry 65000... close>????

 

Here's one "hey mister, what year is your dune buggy".

 

so you are probley like me....the price has to reflect what it is..... if I'm gonna buy a 32 roadster.... it sure ashell won't be a glass one for 65k,... I don't care how rust free the body is...

 

what I got was... is that a real manx

 

hows it going???

 

What if a fiberglass car also had radial tires? We should argue about that too... Some of you guys have WAY too much time on your hands, and I'm retired and live in Florida.

 

I prefer steel, but would drive and have fun in a fiberglass car without any worries. Key point being drive and have fun. Up to this point in my life, all my old cars have been steel, but also they are ones that a fiberglass replica wasn't made so I have not had to decide on that. Sure bolt on parts like fenders or trunk lid could be found in fiberglass, but I always have had all steel. All used original frames as well, with various suspension changes and modifications.

Let me ask a theoretical question: Is it the main body that defines a fiberglass car? How about a steel main body and everything else being fiberglass like fenders, trunk lid, hood, running boards. That example vehicle is probably as much fiberglass as steel.

To start another level of discussion: Many original steel bodies don't have the official numbers, that was on the engine for many; or stamped on the frame.

 

I could give a shit what a car is made out of or what it’s worth for that matter, if I like it I build it then drive the crap out of it.

 

Much like, if you keep grandpa's hammer because it means so much to you, and you have replaced the handle three times and the head twice, is it really grandpa's hammer???
The only people that should be so worried about full original steel are the restoration crowd, not so much us...

 

I would say you are close

 

so If a glass 34 Ford is $40,0000 and a real steel one is $80,000 I'd take a $40,000 1949 Chevrolet instead.

 

It’s all about the fun factor , if one is having fun so be it . Life is short .
Just don’t try to pawn off to the unknowing it’s a real car because it has a title .

 

thats what I was looking for.... I've seen a few 32 for 100k and over.... I don't even know anyone thaqt would pay 100k for a 32... then I seen a glass 32 for 65k..... don't know anyone like that, so I thought... I wonder if the times have changed and people would spend 65k for a glass car.... but I think free adds changed the whole market... when you are paying 180 bucks for a 3 line add for 3 days.... you price to sell..

 

1933 Willys fiberglass body. Roof with 1/4 panels $700.00. Race only car. Car might be worth more than steel bodied car because it is a few pounds lighter. No minimum weight rule back then. Forgot to mention the doors are aluminum.

 

oh, and I read in on the internet....

Speedway Signature Series All-Steel 1932 Roadster Kit Car

 

I surrender. You are way too smart for me, what with all your internet readin'.
Time to let it go.........

 

Sure, if it's a Corvette, or my Bonneville Roadster. Honestly f/g makes me itch. I'll stick to steel, but I appreciate a good glass car. Purpose built race car fiberglass stuff is wonderful.

Frankly though who gives a shit what other folks think. If it makes you smile and has horsepower that's the test. What Skippy the myopic thread polisher thinks should be of no concern............

- Tim

 

Define "defines".
Besides, it's a lot like porn.....if you like it you know what it is.