1970 Ginetta G15

Is there any steelwork bonded into the glass fibre?

Or is it easy enough to see the rot?

It’s one of the things that has worried me a little about old kit cars, but I suppose the steel work is either ok or the rust bulges the fro and it s obvious (?)

Wow, it looks like it was stored in a sauna. Nice looking car that. Don´t think i saw one before.

It does appear that way at times doesn't it.


Glassfibre cars seem to last "on the road" not much longer than any other car. The big difference is that they last "off the road" almost indefinitely which is where the toll is taken on the ferrous, fabric, foam and natural fibre parts.

More playing with laminates today - a couple more G15 bumpers - we will have to find something else to practice with. Thinking about it we have found something else to play with as we have a couple of sets of rear inner wheel arch protectors to make - These were always better on the earlier cars as they had a full length GF sheet trimmed where as later cars the just had a short bit of tin that just rotted away.

Today the test was a laminate of 228g satin cloth 600g CSM and 228g cloth again - The last test of 3 x 228g and the Silver metallic gel went well enough apart from the streaky gel and the laminate was very uniform and only 1mm thick, but the finished part was not as torsionally stiff as we would have liked, which was as we expected due to the bi-directional nature of the cloth. We may try a lay up of cloth in the future with each layer shifted 90 degrees in the weave to increase the directional stiffness. With the 600g CSM this laminate should be very strong in all directions and also very uniform.



Just the usual Grey gel on these ones

The 1973 Motor Show G21S that also featured in many road test reports of the period.

If the G21 was rare then the G21S was a rare version of this rare car as it came equipped with the "Holbay" version of the 1725cc Rootes mill.







The G21S was fitted with the 4 speed overdrive as standard whereas it was just an option on the G21 even though it seems that the mojority of the cars were specified with the overdrive.

What happened with our particular G21 is that a fault developed with the overdrive that took it off the road in 1983 and into a leaky tin shed where it stayed for 30 years.

Oh and the last set of bumpers turned out rather well.

I have always liked the look of the Holbay 1725 - many a time I have thought about buying an Alpine series 1 and dropping one in.

This one looks like it has had a dose of the clappers



Has a familiar looking plate though

It has all of the classic ingredients - just needs a sympathetic hand, a clean rag and can of WD40 and all will be good