Motion Pictures 1955: Build A Car in 4 Hours

Hi gang..

For you 1950's fiberglass hot rods/sports car/kit car guys...here's a link to a website that my good friend Jon Greuel, myself, and a cast of many enthusiasts put together concerning these cars and their history:

http://fiberglasssportscars.com/

Hope you enjoy..

Geoff

 

You sure that wasn't the pilot for or ?

 

Great old TV shows, Ryan was not even a lucky sperm then...
Soupy Sales died today...remember him!...

 

Thanks for that, I thought it was in a magazine but perhaps I saw on TV. It was clearly a time of 'we can do anything'.
Allen

 

Yeah everything just flew apart, new enough that stuff wasn't rust welded together. Not an air tool in sight. The seat was upholstered and ready like everything was staged to go in. I need that crew at my place for about a solid week.Coolvid with that 50's feel.

 

Thats a pretty cool.

We are currently doing a restoration on a 52 Glassbar/Mameco Ardun with race history. It really is a cool car. Has the same late 40's frame and suspension but with an Ardun converted flathead.

The quality is actually not that bad. I was impressed.

 

that's what i thought, she must have been a little rough to the touch. White paint on the old film worked well as a cover up.

 

That's insane... Cool video!

 

Now thats some good footage!

 

Great video, lots of laughs... That mut have been some fast drying paint, guy is still painting the back while the other guys are installing and cleaning the headlights... Love it!!!

 

Looks like it had a Columbia rear end, too.

 

If anyone is really interested in one of these, there's one on CL right now.
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/cto/1409188135.html

 

I guess the master cylinder and brake lines are already in the chassis. didn't see them bleed any brakes... or run any fuel lines.

 

When I was a senior at Canyon High School out in Saugus, CA in 1970 somebody donated one of those things to the high school auto shop program. I recall it having a 1941 flatty so maybe.......

The shop teacher was real protective of it and wouldn't let us kids mess with it much. In 1970 a '41 sedan wouldn't have gotten any more respect than that one got. We thought '36's and '40's were worthwhile though. Coupes! A football jock had a '40 sedan and we wouldn't even give it a second look. And '32-'34 were already high dollar to us kids.

The big time lapse camera was a Mitchell. Fun stuff.

 

That video was cool. As noted above, it was nice that they had everything prepped before hand. Prolly would have taken twice as long if they would have had to run all the wires and hardlines.

 

God A-mighty!! that brought back memories! i had a old cherry picker made out of some kind of WWII bombhoist material/parts! thing was WAY over-built and worked great, but was a cumbersome bastard. gave it to a friend when i moved. he still has it. wonder how many motors it's changed over the years. super-cool video. i love this stuff. shows that whole 50s "we can do it" vibe!