Which City/State

[fatherlarry]

The first fiberglass bodies produced for the 1953 Corvette were farmed out from GM to a private contractor.

1. Which City/State can claim the bragging rights to production of the first fiberglass Corvette bodies?

2. (A little tougher), What was the name of the body manufacturer?:smoke:

[FinWolf]

The post-war car-building boom led Henry Kaiser to establish a reinforced plastics research laboratory, with Goldsworthy as its consulting director, in Emeryville, Calif., U.S.A. That association led to the development of fiberglass bodies for Kaiser's Darrin automobile. A few years later, General Motors decided on a fiberglass body for its new Corvette sports car. Goldsworthy was asked to consult on the program's design, tooling and production phases. Between 1951 and 1953 he commuted between California and Ashtabula, Ohio, U.S.A., where the first Corvette body panels were hand layed up in open molds by Molded Fiber Glass Co.

[fatherlarry]

:nod: ;bt Correct: In Ashtabula, Ohio, The Molded Fiber Glass Body Company. I'll buy you a soda at Eorio's on Saturday.