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For more than 30 years Superior Glass Works has served street rodders, drag racers, customizers and restorers. We’ve earned our reputation by producing the highest quality
The Superior 54 Sport Wagon Project History
The Superior 54 Sport Wagon project was started in the 1980s by an individual trying to build his own piece of history. The years went by and the project languished. In 2004, Superior Glass Works acquired the unfinished dream. Five more years and many thousands of hours later, the Superior 54 Sport Wagon is available…at last. The journey was one that combined old-school craftsmanship and leading-edge technology. One of the most significant pieces of this project was to create the ‘plug’ – the body from which a mold could be made. Without an original body to start with, the plug was build using wood, foam, fiberglass, body filler, steel and anything else that would yield the desired form. These materials were shaped entirely by hand using only simple tools to create an extremely accurate model from which the molds were made.
The next phase of the project blasted our team into the modern era of product design and development. The now-perfect plug was imaged with a 3-D scanner, producing electronic files of the body from every angle. These were handed off to a CAD drafter to digitally create all of the body and window trim pieces. Rapid-prototyping technology was utilized to produce each part in full scale that were then installed on the body. After final hand-fitting of each trim piece, the master parts were finished and ready for production and chrome.
Since we were building a Corvette tribute car, it only seemed fitting to use the high-performance 1997-2005 C5 Corvette suspension under the skin. Leveraging decades of in-house street rod and racing chassis experience, and working with our friends at Art Morrison Enterprises, we designed a chassis from the ground up to meet our exact specifications. Art Morrison then built it up in their leading edge chassis production facility and we have a world-class platform on which this car will drive.
Many challenges were encountered and all were overcome through hard work, innovation, and creativity. Superior Glass Works received a lot of help from many people along the and we would like to thank and recognize them here:
Art Morrison Enterprises, Inc. - Premier chassis builders Tri Valley Auto Glass - Custom curved glass Design Department – Trim design and artist renderings Dependable Pattern Works – 3-D imaging and rapid prototyping
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fiberglass bodies and parts, and complete, custom chassis. Fourteen complete street rod bodies, 11 race car bodies, and over 500 individual fiberglass parts are manufactured in our Molalla, Oregon, facility. Our chassis shop builds custom chassis in many styles including solid-axle traditional, 4-wheel-independent show-stopper, and nose-high gassers. Learn more at 