Denzel

I was expecting a picture of Denzel Washington.

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Spotted this one at Monterey five years ago.

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I just think they're neat.

Cool!  Looks like a cross between a Bug-Eye Sprite and a Karman Ghia.

@MusbJim posted:

Cool!  Looks like a cross between a Bug-Eye Sprite and a Karman Ghia.

Having owned both of those cars in the past, and having enjoyed both for what they were and were not, I take umbrage at that statement.

That car just looks like itself, and that's the problem. 

I hear what you're saying, Bob, but I also see more than a little Bugeye in it.  Not so much of the Karmann Ghia.

@edsnova posted:

I just think they're neat.

I think they’re neat, too. The replica of a Glöckler the guy in SoCal made, as well.

Neither would replace my Spyder.

The “Glockler” replica was built  in the 1980s  in Fullerton , Ca ,  

He was really not trying to make a replica of anything  , just a neat little sports car ,  The fiberglass bodies were done by a boat builder down in Costa Mesa and were real thick ,

Most had a VW chassis but one was made with a mid engine buggy frame ,

I don't know, that blue one looks like a PerryD replica or a "limo Spyder" it's so long.

All the Glockler cars I've ever seen were short and tiny.

It was designed for a stock bug chassis so it’s long , 94 inch wheelbase,

and there are no doors ,  the original mold did not have sections to have an opening front hood  or rear  lid ,

Yeah, it's TOO long by a mile.

https://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/2716

This REAL Glockler has way more in common with the Denzel than I previously thought. It has been said that this car was the inspiration for Porsche Spyders. Walter Glockler was a Porsche dealer in Frankfurt. And it has DOORS!

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Aha!

So, those

were the inspiration for these:

(and maybe for the door handles, too!).

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I think Herr Glockler got Porsche's attention by beating his cars on the track.

@Sacto Mitch Yeah, there is definitely a link to those drilled wheels(minus the knockoffs).

Spyders don't need no stinkin' door handles!

@Sacto Mitch posted:

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Aha!

So, those

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FWIW, that’s famous importer Max Hoffman in one of the Glöcklers at Sebring in 56-57??

I think the knock offs are fake , you can see a small 4 bolt lug pattern if you zoom in on the photo.

the hot setup in the early 50s was Fiat 1100 drum brakes which  were made like the later 356 drums (steel liner and aluminum face and fins).

Whether he succeeded or failed at reproducing a Glöckler is open to debate, but that’s what it was supposed to be, built on top of a VW pan.

https://www.kitcarlist.com/glockler/

http://smclassiccars.com/porsc...-spyder-replica.html

http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=88141

AFAIK, this was the Glöckler (#2) it attempted to replicate.

@imperial posted:

I think the knock offs are fake , you can see a small 4 bolt lug pattern if you zoom in on the photo.

Yes.

I thought the holes were for locating pins on the hub?

@dlearl476 By any aesthetic metric, he failed on that full-length pan. Butt ugly.

When poking around looking at Glockler Spyder pictures, I noticed how much Chris Runge's FF001(Freeway Flier) looks like Glockler number 1. Never noticed that before.

So I got a dreaded “Storage Almost Full” on my phone last night so I set about a purge. Car show and dog pics uploaded to my SmugMug acct, 8 years of leftie political memes in the digital dumpster.

In the process I think I discovered where I got the idea that those Klassic Radar “Stark” wide five Halibrand copies would look good on a Spyder:

Now that Empi is selling a version, most of the earlier suppliers of the German wheels no longer carry them.  I’m concerned Empi bought an exclusive and is now having them made out of Chinesium, like they like.

Apparently, I’m repeating myself.
https://www.speedsterowners.co...c-rader-stark-wheels