72 Story
| The tale below is from an e-mail to Glassic.org by Don (no relation to the Annexmaster). The email was dated 7/28/01 from: (with permission) charcie@tampabay.rr.com |
| I have enjoyed looking at your site (Glassic.org),
I worked for Glassic Motor car in 1972-73, I was in production and hung the doors and rumble seats. Also the windshield and other accessories. we had a fire in the layout building in 73 and lost the roadster molding. We only built the phaeton model for a while until they made another mold. We also had one on The Price is Right show and one was sold to Liberace. This was done at the West Palm Beach plant behind the Dog Track. They also took photos of the assembly process. Each station had it's workers doing something to the car. They were for a brochure but don't know what came of it. We were using the ford 302 at that time.The body was married to the inner panel as it came into the rear side door. the frame was built coming into the back door. it would than be fully wired including dash and steering column and lights etc. It would than come to me for the doors and rumble seat, bumpers and windshield etc. than it would go to the last station for upholstery. After I hung the doors I would sit a make shift chair behind the door and run it around the field a while to settle the doors. sounds funny but it worked. It was a great crew and we took pride in the craftsmanship. Great memories....Don |