marinum maritime museum glastron is a boat manufacturing company and was one of the first manufacturers of fiberglass boats . bob hammond bill gaston bob shoop and guy woodard founded this company on october 14 1956 in austin texas . it was sold to genmar holdings in the 1990s and manufacturing was moved to minnesota . citation needed glastron is known for its boat hull design innovations including the aqualift and ssv hull designs the latter of which is still in use today . glastron s glastonbury boats were featured in the james bond film live and let die . a boat chase was filmed in louisiana around the irish bayou area . 1 twenty six boats were built by glastron for the film of which seventeen were destroyed during rehearsals . 2 the speedboat jump scene over the bayou filmed with the assistance of a specially constructed ramp unintentionally set a guinness world record at the time with 110 feet 34 m cleared . the waves created by the impact caused the following boat to flip over . 3 references edit bond 1973 the lost documentary live and let die ultimate edition disc 2 ntsc widescreen closed captioned format requires url help dvd . mgm ua home video . 1973 . asin b000ly209e . access date requires url help sorensen eric 25 january 2007 . big gaudy and bond like seattle boat show exhibit cuts to the chase . the seattle times . inside live and let die live and let die ultimate edition disc 2 ntsc widescreen closed captioned format requires url help dvd . mgm ua home video . 2000 . asin b000ly209e . access date requires url help external links edit current company web site classic glastron owners web site this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title glastron & oldid 724179257 categories defunct manufacturing companies of the united statesunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories pages using citations with format and no urlpages using citations with accessdate and no urlall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2010all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 7 june 2016 at 16 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view