History The very first ever fiberglass 1932 ford roadster body

not a bug guy, but that looks like an oval window with semaphores

 

John, not to be argumentative, but the Stingray Corvette body, like the one pictured in the background, came out in 1963...and lasted until 1967...I blew up the pic and really cannot tell if it is a '63, '64, or '65/'66/'67...

FWIW, the '63 had a split rear window and '63, '64 Vettes had a cast piece of trim inset into the hood...I cannot see either of those items in that pic....but since there's a '64 Chevy in the shot, I'd venture the Corvette is a '64 or '65...certainly no later than that.

I'm by no means a Corvette expert...but I think it's earlier than a '67

R-

 

Hi, Bruce.
I might have 'reference' dates confused, but I thought I saw (and shared laughs with my friends over) that body advertised in the J.C. Whitney catalog possibly as far back as 1957.
Anyone have a JC Whitney 'news print-type' catalog that old? Reason for thinking this is that I was building my '30 Cabriolet then, (just installed body on my '32 rails) and my bud said, "Why not a '32 body? J.C. has a fiberglass one." We all laughed, I pointed out the 'sprues' on the deck, saying that it looked like a cheap model car body.
Loved your 'slice from a loaf' comment!

 

I remember Jerrys car from the the old KCTA days . It was outstanding and ran hard.
Blaine

 

I picked up one of the Almquist 'Duece' bodies about 15 years ago as a rolling project. The body was in fair condition but the thing looked so bad I couldn't bring myself to do anything with it. Last I knew it was gonna be used for a sand or mud drag car body.
I think I got a whopping couple hundred bucks for it back then. But it was ok, I made my money on the bobbed Duece frame it sat on...like 700 bucks.

 

I can hear it now...

"I'm building this glass '32 with all parts being made before '59... and I'm doing it as if the builder worked as a boat builder by day and had access to fiberglass."

Just to justify it...

BTW... cool car, even if it's glass!

Sam

 

And...'32 stuff was probably much harder to find back then than now. More surely existed, but there was no way in hell to find it unless someone you knew had it. No network of car fleamarkets, no internet, few magazines with early Ford activity forefront...ever notice the '32 WANT ads in old HRM's all the way back to the beginning??

 

I used to have a fiberglass '32 that was built in 1929.

 

hahaha I just spit my coffee!