You’re reading this with a bit of interest and a bit of eye-rolling, after all this is giuliettas.com, not glasgt.com, but hey, it’s really mattsvehicularinterest.com, so humor me. I’ll inevitably talk about Sprint’s since they tend to be my frame of reference.
I was cruising the bits and bytes and found FCB Free Car Brochures. The have a lot of good brochures scanned at VERY high resolution, including some Giulietta’s and Glas’s (awkward plural -anyone?). I was thinking that most of you are probably like me, and have only ever seen a Glas GT at the point in the story where mine is -at the end of act one, just before act two begins or might begin, in other words, as a derelict disassembled depressing heap. Well, this post is meant to take you back, to the beginning of act one, where the virgin is still a virgin, the dog hasn’t run away, and the crops are still growing. From the top: Welcome to the all-new 1963 Glas 1300 GT!
This is the first picture in the 1963 brochure and represents what would have been many peoples first glimpse of the new GT based on the 1300 sedan. Sexy car, sexy color, sexy girl not included. Note the 1300GT doesn’t have a hood scoop. Alfa wasn’t the only one to add a ‘decorative’ hood scoop to give their slightly larger engine a little head-room. Like the Alfa 1600, the Glas 1700 was given a longer stroke.
