1952 Glasspar G2

The Glasspar G2 was the first fiberglass-bodied sports car made in the USA.  Manufactured by Bill Tritt in 1949, it is no longer built today.  It was followed by many others, such as the Kaiser Darrin (also in the collection), the 1953 Corvette, the 1953 Woodill Wildfire (also in the collection), the 1957 Almquist Sabre II (also in the collection) and many others.  The motoring industry had warmed to the idea of using the incredibly strong yet incredibly light fiberglass to make car bodies.

After being shown at the Philadelphia Plastics Exhibit in 1952, the car was featured in many auto trade magazines, as well as in Life, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.  The Glasspar Company then went public and sold stock to raise capital. 

Tritt also designed and built for fiberglass car bodies for a variety of other individuals and companies, such as Robert “Woody” Woodhill, Kaiser, Volvo, and Walt Disney.  Tritt and Glaspar were commissioned by Disneyland in Anaheim to build the fiberglass car bodies for its Autopia automobile track. 

This example is one of only a handful still in existence.  Usually married to a Kaiser or Willy’s frame (this car has a Willy’s frame), today they would be considered to be very slow.  It was not unusual to see a Willy’s frame holding a Ford Flathead V8, Buick brakes and a Lincoln rear end.  None of the G2s were the same in their configuration.

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Body: coming soon

Transmission: Manual

Engine: V8

Top Speed: coming soon

Horsepower: coming soon

Condition: coming soon

Car’s History: coming soon

Claim to Fame: First fiberglass-bodied sports car made in the USA

Mileage: coming soon

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