The Glas GT four-seater - Pietro Frua's lost study

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The Glas GT four-seater - Pietro Frua's lost study

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Created on February 6, 2026

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Stefan Dierkes

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Glas GT four-seater (1965) - Unchanged from the front except for the new hood, photographed at the 1965 Geneva Motor Show

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Glas GT four-seater (1965) - the four-seater on the Pietro Frua stand at the 1965 Geneva Motor Show

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Glas GT four-seater (1965) - Frua not only raised the roof but also the trunk and the side line at the rear

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Glas GT four-seater (1965) - Frua provided the higher rear end panel with a circumferential edge and additional rectangular reflectors above the indicators

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Glass GT four-seater (1965) - Pietro Frua (in dark coat top left) with GT four-seater and GT convertible with hardtop

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Glas GT four-seater (1965) - The GT four-seater with Talbot mirrors and BMW hubcaps on the factory premises in Dingolfing in 1968

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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 (1965) - you can park it anywhere in style

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

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

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Glass 1300 GT (1965) - Instruments in a semicircle - Geneva Motor Show 1965

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Summary

At the 1965 Geneva Motor Show, Pietro Frua presented a one-off that would certainly have appealed to both social and sporty Glas drivers, but which never made it into series production. Frua took on the development of the presumably lost prototype at his own risk ...

This article contains the following chapters

Presentation at the 1965 Geneva Motor Show
Berlinetta for four people
Development at own risk
Scrapped after an accident?

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Preview (beginning of the article)

In 1965, Pietro Frua presented a four-seater notchback study based on the Glas GT at the Geneva Motor Show - an elegant one-off that reveals a lot about Frua's courage and creative ideas, but never went into series production. At the 35th Geneva Motor Show from March 11 to 21, 1965, Pietro Frua once again had a keen sense for captivating visitors with elegance and surprises with the five bodies he presented. In the hall reserved for coachbuilders, which Etienne Cornil described in the Automobil Revue (No. 14, March 19, 1965) as the "pleasure garden of coachbuilding elegance", he occupied two stands next to the large staircase at the front.

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