NeilBlanchard -- I prefer the Pillbug's window openings. The Bugatti is all square in the front/round in the back. And it doesn't have the vortex-inducing square edges. But Bugatti in '35 and Schlor in '39, right?
The Miastrada reminds me of
this from here:
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kach22i -- Fiberglass in 1949 beats the Corvette by 4 years. Here's an interesting story.
The 1953 Renault-Based Plasticar Marquis: Fashioned For Elegance, Economy and Speed
It turns out that Plasticar of Doyleston, PA obtained an aluminum body from a French race driver, that was intended for fiberglass in volume production in 1953, but their technique resulted in too-heavy body. The French used a different fabric and went on to success.
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With great strategic marketing and business creativity, Jean Rédélé would now launch the Alpine com*pany. Officially registered on 22 June 1955, the name would become world famous in the years that followed as Rédélé developed his own glass-fibre-bodied creations.
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