The Almquist Sabre Speedster

The Almquist Sabre Speedster

The Almquist Sabre was a bizarre little kit car with its Disneyland Autopia-sized fiberglass body, high-mounted doors and Nash-Healey inspired inboard headlights. In fact, I wrote about the Sabre in-depth right here on the Jalopy Journal many years ago, based on an ad that I found in one of my dad’s old speed parts catalogs. Today I discovered this old film of a Sabre freshly assembled and out on a test run in 1958, and it all came back to me. Long story short, you ordered the basic body kit from Almquist for $295, mounted it on your own Z’d Crosley chassis or something similar, then mount any 4 or 6 Banger motor you could wedge under the miniature hood, and… Voilà, you’ve got the poor man’s 3/4 scale Corvette for well under a Grand!

Eh, kind of…

 

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