| Re: Carbon fiber confusion?
I have a ClassicCars magazine on my bench from October of 2000 which says the three LeMans spec Gulf cars were the first to use carbon fiber in the manufacture of the bodies. They used it in strand form between the layers of glass fiber to reinforce the body panels which allowed them to be thinner. "Not true carbon fiber like in use today" per the article but interesting none the less. Bill Hough can probably shed some light on the early use of carbon fiber.
Brian
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