It was white, and it still had the side curtains. It was a nice car, but the other sports car guys said it was a dog because of that anemic motor. Must have been true, because not long after that, we saw a Jaguar XKE in front of the house. BRG one, black interior. That engine had nothing to do with Continental. It was not produced by Continental.
It was not designed by Continental nor derived from a Continental engine design. The only engine used by Willys that was derived from a Continental produced one was the L sidevalve six cylinder which Willys went on to manufacture as the Super Hurricane L engine. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in.
Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. But first we need some good pictures of the car. Now a lot of things happened pretty much at the same time. My job was to get busy on the press coverage. We met for lunch with Earl Ebers and talked about how the car body could be presented to make a really interesting story.
I told him that before the car was painted, the body was actually translucent. That did it. He started talking about how we could lower the body over the car and light it from underneath.
The ideas came together and he sold the story to his editors. They both agreed that Naugatuck Chemical would subsidize the construction of four prototype cars, which was the amount Tritt wanted to justify setting up the bucks and molds. They also agreed to send Earle out to Costa Mesa to work on the first four models and to oversee the operation. And so Glasspar and Naugatuck were joined at the hip in terms or making fiberglass sports cars a reality, and no small job was laid out in front of them to make this dream a reality.
In fact, in just a few short months Bill Tritt would have to:. Life magazine was set to do a feature story; one hundred eighty degrees from a few days before. During this time, they photographed the Brooks Boxer in action shots for the magazine, captured Bill Tritt working on the plaster buck for the G2 sports car, showed the steps in making a fiberglass body, and more.
In fact, in photographing the sports car body being built, they would be capturing the very first body being built from the production molds. Tags: None. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble??? Is this a "trick" question? Comment Post Cancel. Originally posted by clonelark View Post. Good answer. I've raced the Lotus Elite on Forza 5 on xbox 1, didn't know it was fiberglass. Weymann was building fiber bodies not necessarily glass in the twenties and thirties for individual chassis orders Duesenberg, etc.
They got their start with airplanes. Back in the day there was only one 's' in fiberglas. Gary L. Obviously, you did not. Are you going to correct me about there not being any rocks, or any wool, in rockwool? A predecessor to fiberglass. Originally posted by studegary View Post. I admittedly did not read your reference.
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