Meet the man on a mission to collect and restore every fiberglass special from the '50s he can find.
Geoff Hacker collects, owns and restores those fiberglass specials that made the ’50s so zoomy–all thanks to this one, an El Tiburon Shark.
Repairing and Restoring Fiberglass Sports Cars.
Don’t dismiss this fiberglass copy as some ill-handling VW rollerskate with different bodywork. This TF replica is based on the MGB.
In the ’50s and ’60s, the resin revolution turned dreamers into car manufacturers.
After finishing the fiberglass portion of our Elva’s passenger seat, we still needed to build an upper seat bracket.
We took a piece of 1/16-inch bar stock and cut …
Why did we build a passenger seat for our Elva sports racer?
Because that’s what the racing rules of the day required.
A related quote, in fact, from the SCCA’s …
Fiberglass breaks.
Fortunately, fiberglass can be repaired, too.
We recently had to make a difficult and rather odd repair on our Lotus Elan.
We needed to widen our Elva’s original fiberglass seat an inch to fit our driver.
[How to rebuild and widen a fiberglass seat]
It was now time to smooth out …
Is repairing fiberglass messy? It can be, but the good news is that the tools are simple, the supplies are cheap and the work is a lot easier than you …
