glastron gt-150

[amorris]

i am looking for the glastron gt-150 boat mold. the gt-150 was produced by glastron between 1972-1980. the molds were then acquired by sunray of canada and they used the molds to produce the ss-150. any help is appreciated.
thank you
a morris

[Guest]

Try silverline in Winnipeg MB, they use to be Vanguard and made dozens of those boats

Stan

[Guest]

Have you been successful finding the Sunray molds?

Robert

[Trevor Hand]

With regard to the sunray boat molds. I own a sunray boat but it says on the information plate that it is a 480 ss. I had no idea that glastron sold the mold to sunray canada. I have been trying to figure out why it said sunray on the back plate. I have looking on the internet for pics of boats like mine and all that would come up is a glastron GT 150. Thanks for that info.

[Trevor Hand]

i am looking for the glastron gt-150 boat mold. the gt-150 was produced by glastron between 1972-1980. the molds were then acquired by sunray of canada and they used the molds to produce the ss-150. any help is appreciated.
thank you
a morris
If you have any more information please let me know I am restoring my SunRay 480 ss. Thanks

[Trevor Hand]

I think I may have tracked down the Glastron GT 150 mold check out a site called cottagerboats.com its very simular in styling. The mold may be here in Ontario.

[Lenny]

If you ever "stumble across" the molds for the Glastron/Molinari 17 footer you will have a goldmine. Angelino Molinari was untouchable in Europe in these hulls and he teamed up with Bob Hammond and brought this proven design to the USA in the early sixties. From there, we saw Don Aronow also offer up a rendering very similar to Glastrons while he was at the helm of Magnum Marine.
http://www.classicglastron.com

http://www.classicglastron.com/71maybea2plus2-lowerres.JPG

http://www.magnummarine.com/history/classics/missile/missile.jpg

http://www.donzi.net/photos/michmissile03.jpg

...and in the words of Don Aronows son (Michael) we have this
Lenny, when my dad came back from Europe in 63-64 he spoke about these great Molinari cats that he had seen and how great they looked, ran and handled. Fast forward to the summer of 67 when we were racing in Europe. During that time, Don once again had the opportunity to watch the Molinari cats in action and this time he ordered two to be delivered to him in North Miami Beach, either at Magnum or to one of his little work/test shops. He had spent the day with Francesco and/or Vincenzo and they had introduced him to Angelo Molinari.
To quote from the Fort Lauderdale News, January 26, 1968 by Johnny Wilson, Outdoor News Editor who had interviewed Dad - "Take one of the finest Italian-designed and made outboard racing runabouts, revise it a bit and put it through the American production gamut and what do you have? You have the new Maltese Magnum 16, a fiberglass blending of the best qualities of the world's finest racing catamarans- the original race-winning design by Molinari of Italy with improvements and solid fiberglass construction by Magnum of Miami, as proven by Don Aronow, the current world champ in offshore powerboat racing.
Aronow's newest creation (which was just released at the recent Miami Boat Show) will have it first Broward showing today, tomorrow and Sunday at Everglades Marina, where selective demonstrations will be given all three days by factory representatives.
The first American showing of this three year old Italian design was old number 888 which Roy Ridgell of the Kiekhaefer Mercury team drove to a smahing sixth overall with a single engine in the last Miami-Palm Beach version of the Gold Coast Marathon.
But Aronow saw the boats in action while he was touring Europe last summer on his way to the world driving title, and bought a couple for study. The Molinari had won the rugged 6 hour Marathon of Paris two straight years, and even Aronow was impressed. He and the Magnum development team analyzed them from stem to stern and after months of testing, revising and re-designing the twin-keel Maltese magnum 16 went into production.
Of one piece laminated high impact fiberglass, the hull has an aerogynamically designed tunnel from bow to transom and the typical "droop snoot" silhouette configuration of the top European racing rigs.
Aronow says 'She's an incomparable ski boat, a thrilling personal boat and a born to win racing boat - a finer boat than any of the champions from which she was created' ".
This article was titled MAGUNM 16: SUCCESSFUL BY-PRODUCT OF ITALIAN HULL and was printed below two black and white pictures of the Missile, one in our driveway on a trailer and one running with its Merc 125 (the 1250) outboard.
Lenny, the picture you have posted looks exactly like the Magnum Missile 16'.
A year or two later, Glastron's Bob Hammond put Art Carlson and Mr. Molinari together and they began building the Glastron-Carlson-Molinari line of small outboard cats. All three men - true powerboating legends.
To my eye, the Magnum was the winner. It was built with all of those little extras that always made Dad's boats special. It was carpeted and had those 4 comfortable back to back bucket seats and so on. Jim was not involved with Magnum at that time.
Dad had this idea of using the Missile to get from our home in Coral Gables to Magnum on 188th Street in order to avoid the daily traffic. He tried it a few times but decided a comfortable car trumped the pounding and the wetness.
I have these great shots of the Missile including my favorite with Don and Vincenzo running in the bay behind our home when Vincenzo visited.
Dad sold Magnum to Apeco (the American Photocopy Equipment Company) owned by friends Bobby and Clayton Rautbord with Clayton in charge shortly thereafter. The Missile never really got off the ground after the sale. (Socialite Sugar Rautbord was Clayton's wife)
Hope this has helped answer a lot of Missile questions.


A quote from Allan Brown (Brownie)
Mike, I hope you don't mind my piling my recollections on top of yours. Two small points: The builder of the original wooden missiles, 16' and 19' was Dieter Schulze. The missile took up too much room in the small glass shot to create enough bucks to make it worthwhile.

A reply from Michael Aronow
No problem AB, I welcome your input and appreciate the help, - after all, you were there on the street all week while I was in school. As to your post:
You are right on. Dieter did indeed build the wooden 16' and 19' and true enough, there was not enough room in the "shop" to make producing the Missiles worthwhile when the money was in the larger Magnums.
One more interesting little footnote: The Missile molds ended up in the vacant field next to plant 1 at Cigarette, along with that large group of discarded molds and other mold parts, etc. and with all the change of ownerships going on over the years, I do not believe that any of new owners were ever aware of it.


A reply below from a fella that glassed them all.
A set of 16' molds ended up with Randy Rabe @ Rabco cir. 1977. I put together a few of them. (Hated crawling up in the nose to glass the deck and hull together).

Rabco sold and resold over the years but I think the original mold or a copy is still with them somewhere in Sarasota last I heard.

Randy built somewhere around twenty of them I think.


A Morris, I realize this doesn't answer your GT-150 questions but these boats are related. :D

http://www.classicglastron.com/71gl-gt150-v153.html

http://www.classicglastron.com/gl-outlawblues-jump.jpg

[braden]

i dont know what a mold is but i do have a Gt-150 glastron carlson completely restored im about to get rid of it so if you are interestend my email is braden.dewinne@tstc.net or .edu try both

[jeabro]

AMorris, you are right about the GT-150 molds.

Sunray Boats of Canada that was located in Plessisville, Quebec (Canada) bought the Glastron GT-150 molds around 1980 timeframe to build replica of the GT-150.
I own a SS-480 1981 which I think was the first year of these copies. I know that they made them at least up to 1987 or 1988. They earlier boats were named SS-480 (could be 480 SS on the name plate) and the later models (exact same) were named SS-150. My guess is that 480 represents the lenght of the boat in centimeters.

Unfortunaly, Sunray Boats went out of business in the early '90s. I have no clue what happen to these molds. The Sunray SS were very popular in the province of Quebec (canada) where we can still find many riding around.

If someone find out if a manufacturer is still making copies of the GT-150, let me know.

[Micheal]

I have a ss480 registered for 1978,

[sandy]

Hello,
I'm new to this forum and have a soft spot for this style of boat. I currently own a 1984 Sunray SS480 and can see the likeness to the Glastron GT150
but to say these two boats came from the same mold, in my opinion is inaccurate. Sunray made the same boat with very few minor changes as a SS150 in the mid to late 70's (pre-metric). To see the Glastron and the Sunray side by side the difference is evident.

[Mr Clows]

i am looking for some way to get some informayion about a boat i just received. i am hoping someone here has heard for it. it is a catermeran style side center console, made by angelino molinari. does anyone know where to get some info on this boat?
thank you

[sandy]

If you ever happen to see a VANGARD BANSHEE I think you will find that is where the Glastron GT 150 moulds went.

[Tracstar]

Hi guys, Just reading your posts concerning what happen to the GT-150 molds by Glastron. SunRay of Canada did have them for a while, then a Canadian company by the name of Tempest Boats started producing them in the late 80s. They sold as a SS-165 . A guy that lives not too far from me, owns a SunRay SS-480. I own a Tempest SS-165, and I can tell you, they are a great boat!!! I bought a new 2003 Yamaha 75hp two stroke and run a 13x19 prop. 48mph :cool: I have seen other boats on the internet that resemble the GT-150, but am not sure if they came from the GT-150 mold. Tracstar

[cungifts]

HI
i´m owner gt 150 GLASTRON, i´m interested in to change of boat so if are, this is my address cungifts@gmail.com
Ernesto