Interesting link discussing the 'Alembic' automobile and the father of glass fibre cars in the USA.
 
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/glasspar-g2/history.htm

interesting to know the first alembic seriesI/II's were roadsters in the 1950's!

Ron and Mica told me that the first Alembic car was a Citroen.

Then there's the story how GM got the Corvette going: quote:After Naugatuck's Alembic was shown in Philadelphia in 1952, the car was presented to Harley Earl, the Chief Stylist of General Motors, in March of that year. The car was borrowed by General Motors for a month of evaluation, and Chevrolet then designed and built the fiberglass Corvette. Bill Tritt's friend, Brandt Goldsworthy, was a consultant to them on their fiberglass problems and techniques.
The Corvette fiberglass bodies were fabricated using the faster but less rigid pressure-molded process rather than the superior and stronger hand-laminated process used at Glasspar for all their car bodies. This accounts for the fact that the Glasspar bodies are as sound today as they were when they were built.

quote:Ron and Mica told me that the first Alembic car was a Citroen.Hm, would that have been a 2CV - or Ugly Duckling as we say in Holland?

No, it was an ID19. The next one was a DS21. I miss those cars.  
 
I never heard of Glasspar's cars before, thanks David.

Ah, la D?esse ... the goddess!
 
Or Snoek (pike) or Strijkijzer (domestic iron) as we say in Holland.
 
Picture one of those with any other car that was on the market at the same time - you can't really notice the other car.

did they ever make one with Fins on it?