Hello Phil and listers:
The first fiberglass car in America was the Brooks Boxer which was built by
Glasspar in 1951. They went on to build their own cars in 1952 and the
Woodill Wildfire in the same year. In 1953 they began production of the
Kaiser Darrin.
Another early car was the Victress which was introduced in 1952. The
company produced a number of very handsome bodies over the next few years.
One of our list members owns a Victress, but I'll let him tell you about it
if he wishes.
BTW, Scott said in his original posting that he was looking for the longest
continously produced sports car or sports coupe. I assumed that these were
descriptive of the same car. The Thunderbird was certainly not the first
as it wasn't introduced until 1955.
I mentioned the Buick Riviera. The car was always produced as a "hardtop
convertible", specialty coupe or convertible. It has been continuously
produced since 1949.
The Cadillac Eldorado has always been a sports coupe or convertible since
1953 and of course, the Corvette has been a sportscar for the same time.
There is no mystery here.
John
Regarding the American sports car,
>>Hello Scott:
>>
>>Well, the Corvette has been around since '53, but they didn't have a coupe
>>until '63 or so. TBirds became miniature limos in the 70's, so I'm goin'
>>waaaay out on a limb, displaying my ignorance, including our Canadian
>>friends in the term *America,* and guessing Avanti?
>>
>>David F. Darby ( I knew I should have been paying attention to American
>>cars.)
>>
>I doubt that. I believe the Avanti went out of production in 1988 or so. I
>think they started in about 62, and there was no convertible until the mid
>80's. So the 'vette has it over the avanti for number of years available in
>either form. I think the answer was the Thunderbird, but one could argue
>whether it was a sports car or not for the last 15 or 20 years of its
>existence.
>
>Now a different and somewhat related question - which still has no relavence
>to british cars or mgs. What was the first fiber-glass bodied 'merican
>car?? Anyone know that one.
>
>Phil Bates
>58 MGA
>67 MGB
>75 Jaguar XJ12C
>66 Land Rover
>52 MG TD replicar (VW)
>86 Peugeot 505 Turbo Gle
>86 Honda Accord LX-i
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