What does every shitty Glas GT project need?  That’s right.  A parts car.  I placed notices around here and there on forums for a parts car and sure enough, one turned up.  This car is a very very late in the production run car, and very very rusty.  Money was slight -almost trivial really, and it has that ‘ran when parked’ look to it, though it’s been a while.  I spent most of my day taking it apart.  Viva la full set of rims!

Yea -or is that yikes?  The good?  It’s all there.  The bad, it’s 200 pounds lighter than a stock Glas GT due to metal loss on the underside.  The ugly?  It was a low miles nice original car before it fell into the wrong hands.

You could reach through there and tickle the drivers toes.  Yep -that’s a P. Frua badge.

It really is a shame.  This car has 53,000 miles and ran less than 10 years ago if the modern spark plugs and abundance of coolant are any indication.  This is a good color for one of these.

Dash and steering wheel are pretty good.  Moss is growing on the floor boards.  I get the feeling that the rust is all recent activity.

This looks crap.  I sort of gave up enthusiasm then decided to pop the valve cover off. 

I was amazed that the inside of the engine was VERY clean.  Spotless really.  I did a leak down and got nothing, but with 53,000 miles, this crank is not likely to need bearings or anything…

Look at that tasty clutch disk.

I am left to wonder what happened here.  A totally good looking, low mileage car is left to rot for some reason.  I can’t find a fault in the engine other than neglect.  Maybe it was parked due to the abundance of rust??  It was in Washington after all.