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The great thing from Dingolfing - Test Glas 1300 GT

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Created on July 15, 1964

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Günther Gebhardt

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - the test car is standing there dirty

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Glas 1300 GT (1964) - on the cover of 'hobby'

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Glass 1300 GT (1964) - on a tough test drive

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Glas 1300 GT (1964) - a hard braking maneuver does not put the disc brakes in trouble

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Glass 1300 GT (1964) - sporty dashboard

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Glas 1300 GT (1964) - View into the engine compartment

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Glas 1300 GT (1964) - the spirited engine with overhead camshaft

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - pretty coupé

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - 175 km/h were promised for the pretty coupé

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - you can park it anywhere in style

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Glass 1300 GT (1964) - at the 1964 Geneva Motor Show

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - at the Brussels Motor Show in 1964

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Glas 1300 GT (1966) - see-through drawing - the OHC engine is at the front, flange-mounted gearbox, low-slung, split propshaft, spacious interior

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - the elegant Frua coupé next to the cute Goggombil coupé

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Goggomobil Coupé, 1204 and Glas 1300 GT (1963) - The three Glas coupés over the years

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Glas 1300 GT, 1204 and Goggomobil Coupé (1963) - The three Glas coupés over the years

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - A short test to sound out driving behavior

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Glas 1300 GT (1964) - the sporty dashboard

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - Steering wheel and dashboard of the test car

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Glass 1300 GT (1965) - Driver and passenger seat

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - the 1300cc engine of the test car

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - the removed engine

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Glas 1300 GT (1966) - two-carburetor OHC sports engine, similar in construction to other Glas models

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - Solex twin carburetor

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - View into the carpeted trunk of the test car

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - View into the trunk

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - Rear lights and rear reflectors

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - the designer was clearly recognizable even to laymen

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Glas 1300 GT (1966) - Sketch of the front axle

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Summary

The Glas 1300 GT Coupé was the first real sports car from the Dingolfing-based manufacturer. And, as far as the test driver of the magazine 'hobby' could judge, it hit the mark. A sporty engine, a ravishingly beautiful bodywork by Pietro Frua and carefully designed technology predestined the sports car to be a proven everyday coupé. This report edits the original wording from 1964 and shows the pretty coupé in many pictures and in the original brochure from back then.

This article contains the following chapters

From a motorcycle on four wheels to a serious sports car
Toxic sports engine and haute couture from Turin
Plenty of interior space
Practical interior with potential for improvement
Surprised by the success
The sound makes the music ...
Track-keeping brakes, comfortable suspension
Circus of bends on the racetrack
Keeping a cool (cylindrical) head
And the competition?

Estimated reading time: 9min

Preview (beginning of the article)

"One day I want to build a car like the one I would buy if I were a sports car driver." It was exactly eight years ago that Anderl Glas, the junior boss of the ambitious Dingolfing plant, spoke these words to me, and he added what he meant by them: "Not a horsepower monster for millionaire playboys, not an uncomfortable sports machine for disabled racing drivers, but also not a wannabe coupé that only feigns something through sporty lines that its normal consumer engine cannot achieve with the best will in the world. In short, a sports car for a civilian price, but with pepper under the hood and so beautiful that you have to fall in love with it at first sight."

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