Fibreglass cars

DAIMLER SP 250 (1959-1964)

n the late 1950s the American market had an insatiable appetite for British sports cars – and the raucous V8 engined ‘Dart’ was launched to satisfy that hunger. Indeed, it was launched in the US, and two thirds of production was meant for buyers across the pond. Sadly, the glassfibre-bodied convertible didn’t get the reception it hoped for, and with people calling it ‘ugly’, instead of the projected 7500 cars being made in the first three years, all told just 2654 trickled out of the Daimler works. It wasn’t exactly cheap, either;