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Italian lines for French roads - Glas 1300 GT and Glas 1700 in the (historic) test

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Created on April 23, 1965

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Jürgen Stockmar

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

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - pretty coupé

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1963 - Coupé and Roadster

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Glas 1300 GT Roadster-Cabriolet (1966) - exceptionally pretty convertible

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

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

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

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - the pretty coupé from Dingolfing - Geneva Motor Show 1965

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

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

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Glass 1300 GT (1965) - Radiator grille of a test car

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

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - View into the trunk

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

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Glas 1300 GT (1965) - type designation on the rear

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

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Glass 1300 GT (1965) - Driver and passenger seat

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1963 - Interior of the Frua Coupé

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - View into the engine compartment

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - the removed engine

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - Solex twin carburetor

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Glas 1300 GT (1966) - View under the valve cover of the engine

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Glas 1300 GT (1963) - the engine with overhead camshaft and timing belt

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

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Glass 1300 GT (1963) - Reproduction of the sketch by Pietro Frua

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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 (1964) - Illustration from the sales brochure

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Glas 1700 (1965) - new middle class with Frua line

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Glas 1500 (1963) - with 1.5 or 1.7 liter engine, the design came from Pietro Frua

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Glas 1500 (1964) - the new middle class in a contemporary factory photo

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Glas 1500 (1964) - Four particularly wide doors allow easy access to all seats in the spacious interior.

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Glas 1500 (1963) - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1963 - Side view of the Frua limousine

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Glas 1700 (1966) - elegant limousine

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Glass 1700 (1966) - Window line with "Hofmeister kink"

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Glas 1700 (1966) - large radiator grille in plain bodywork

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Glass 1700 (1966) - friendly face

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Glas 1700 (1968) - the model for 1968 that never came

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Glas 1700 (1968) - already with BMW hubcaps

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Glass 1700 (1965) - in the AR short test

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Glass 1700 (1965) - with counter-rotating windshield wipers

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Glass 1700 (1965) - detailed view of the front

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Glas 1700 (1965) - elegant, one-piece lettering on the rear

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Glas 1700 TS (1966) - upholstered dashboard with wooden foil

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Glass 1700 (1965) - single seats

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Glas 1700 TS (1965) - the larger engine in the 1700 TS produced 100 hp, the braking aid is clearly visible

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Glass 1700 (1966) - Sectional drawing of the engine, front view

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Glass 1700 (1966) - sectional drawing of the engine, three-quarter view

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Glas 1500 (1964) - The X-ray image shows the technical structure of the spacious 1.5 liter car.

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Glass 1500 (1963) - sketch by Pietro Frua - first work for Anderl Glas

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Glass 1500 (1964) - Illustration from the sales brochure

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Glass 1700 (1964) - Illustration from the sales brochure

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Glas 1700 TS (1964) - with matching Berlin license plate

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Summary

The Glas GT could have given the English sports cars a run for their money. However, it was almost too well and too luxuriously equipped for that and correspondingly expensive. In terms of handling and, above all, driving pleasure, however, it was in no way inferior to the British. The sedan was completely different: more powerful and more comfortable, it was more of a fast highway car than a cornering predator. This historical test report shows very well how different two cars with basically the same engine can be.

This article contains the following chapters

An "old" acquaintance as a heart
Off to France!
Lots of taste inside and out
Where does the GT begin?
The saloon
Rumbling and squeaking
Friendly interior
Technical data & measured values Glas 1300 GT (factory data in brackets)
Technical data & measured values Glas 1700 (factory data in brackets)

Estimated reading time: 23min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The slowly but surely increasing import quota of foreign sports cars and cars with a sporty character shows a reasonably attentive market observer that there is still at least one gap in our range of cars. The width of this gap is considerable, ranging from the Glas 1204 TS to the Porsche 90. Sports car drivers for whom the Glas does not appeal and the Porsche is too expensive have to turn to foreign manufacturers, who offer a wide range of driving machines for prices ranging from DM 8000 to DM 16,000. In Dingolfing, they once again had an eye for the market situation and the necessary courage to design a car that was new in many respects. The Glas 1300 GT was well received by the public, even better than had been expected, because the fact that buyers would literally snatch the car out of the factory's hands was probably beyond even the sales department's dreams.

Welcome to Zwischengas!

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