The Glasspar company owner and a San Francisco based United Airlines Stewardess Ruth Roberts in a Glasspar "Yankee Clipper"

Paul Strassberger, sports car manufacturer, demonstrates his new “Yankee Clipper” to United Airlines Stewardess Ruth Roberts at San Francisco.

 The new Glasspar model would be marketed for approximately $3,400. Mounted on a 1953 Ford chassis and powered by a Ford or Mercury engine

Strassberger saw the Glasspar G2 body as his opportunity to satiate America’s appetite for Sports Cars in a very big way.  He wanted to build a sports car and sell it – from soup to nuts – in his factory.

Already in 1952, Allied, Frazen, LaSaetta, Maverick, Sportstar, Vale, and even Victress were bringing sports car bodies to market.

 And even earlier in the year, William Vaughan in New York put together a Glasspar G2 based Singer that debuted at the International Motor Sports Show in New York. The market seemed ready to explode, and the public seemed willing to buy.

And it was most likely Vaughan’s Singer based Glasspar G2 that was the inspiration for Paul Stassberger’s idea. That is, to bring a sports car to market as fast as possible in 1952 – and use the nicely designed and professionally built Glasspar G2 sports car body.

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