Glastron

Hifive

I've been really enjoying Fergal's rebuild thread, I suppose some of it is because I can enjoy looking at all the results without having to do any of the work!

Anyway, after looking at Fergal's project, I started looking more into the Glastron range of powerboats. Wow they sure made some fine machines back in the day. Here is a few pictures of my favourites.

007 had one of the hard top ones which turned into a plane!
Question.... which bond movie?

Hifive

Beautiful boats, I would give my left....something or other, to own one of these!
Fabulous detail inside, very seventies obviously, but sooo cool!

fergal.b

I vaguely remember seeing the bond boat at the boat show where I also got to meet and shake hands with Jaws, as a young lad he was like a giant not just a big man he was a GIANT.



This boat was also at the show along with the flying man they were the days when we had real boat shows.




And of course the most famous Glastron photo.

fergal.b

Another famous one has just come up for sale.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719844/Batboat-used-original-Batman-film-sale-42-000.html

Steve

Feckin petrolheads...


Give me this any day.. it's on the marina in DL and I get to drool over it once a week!!

fergal.b

Glastron did make sailboats from 1968 - 1970 the Alpha and Sigma, then they coped on to the right way to go :P







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fergal.b

One of the Bond boats just came up for sale http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/james-bond-boat-sale-0

jetfiremuck

That red Glastron is a scimitar I think. Another rare enough one is the intimidator where the exhaust exits over the transom. Beautiful looking boats.

fergal.b

jetfiremuck wrote: »

That red Glastron is a scimitar I think. Another rare enough one is the intimidator where the exhaust exits over the transom. Beautiful looking boats.

This one

fergal.b

A bit of fun info on the Bond boats, even the ones with sails http://www.moorings.com/infographics/jamesbondboats.html



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