The unsung heroes of the automotive world...
Discussion
My starter, if anyone cares to follow, would be Mr Rust Heinz who designed the 1938 Phantom Corsair. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident.
I remember seeing this astonishing creation at the Harrah Collection when it was on show in Dusseldorf, Germany. The 500K and the Deusenberg were there too. I was 14, an impressionable age....
Rust clearly lived and died with cars, some might say he relished them? I wonder if there could be a more complete petrolhead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7...
I remember seeing this astonishing creation at the Harrah Collection when it was on show in Dusseldorf, Germany. The 500K and the Deusenberg were there too. I was 14, an impressionable age....
Rust clearly lived and died with cars, some might say he relished them? I wonder if there could be a more complete petrolhead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7...
bertelli_1 said:
Curved glass? Allowed car designers to go crazy.
You're right! The designers might have had curvaceous ideas but couldn't quite render them because of the limitations of flat glass. The split windscreen was as close as they could get.
So, who was Curved Glass Man, unsung hero?
woodytype S said:
Colin Chapman with Giorgetto Giugiaro
Chapman and Giugiaro can hardly be considered as unsung heroes.Chapman is rightly regarded as an inspired genius and Giugiaro is up there with Farina, Bertone and Gandini.
I would have thought that Hickman, Kirwan Taylor, Frayling and Mike Costin deserve considerably more recognition for their contribution at Lotus Cars than they have ever publicly received.
HiRich said:
Colin Strang. In 1946 (before John Cooper and Eric Brandon) he put the engine behind the driver, very successfully. With the Auto-Union lessons pre-War already forgotten, Strang effectively started the rear-engined revolution.
I raise your 1946 & Auto Union and give you a Benz from 1925.
austin said:
HiRich said:
Colin Strang. In 1946 (before John Cooper and Eric Brandon) he put the engine behind the driver, very successfully. With the Auto-Union lessons pre-War already forgotten, Strang effectively started the rear-engined revolution.
I raise your 1946 & Auto Union and give you a Benz from 1925.
The 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen.
Edited by davepoth on Tuesday 29th September 23:27
davepoth said:
austin said:
HiRich said:
Colin Strang. In 1946 (before John Cooper and Eric Brandon) he put the engine behind the driver, very successfully. With the Auto-Union lessons pre-War already forgotten, Strang effectively started the rear-engined revolution.
I raise your 1946 & Auto Union and give you a Benz from 1925.The 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen.
Edited by davepoth on Tuesday 29th September 23:27
Pat H said:
woodytype S said:
Colin Chapman with Giorgetto Giugiaro
Chapman and Giugiaro can hardly be considered as unsung heroes.Chapman is rightly regarded as an inspired genius and Giugiaro is up there with Farina, Bertone and Gandini.
I would have thought that Hickman, Kirwan Taylor, Frayling and Mike Costin deserve considerably more recognition for their contribution at Lotus Cars than they have ever publicly received.
I totally agree
Bob Knight,
Chain smoking Jaguar chassis designer and eventual chairman. Responsible for C D E Mk1/2 S Mk7/8/9 and all the XK chassis, his last great design was the XJ6/12.
Lofty England.
Jaguar competions and team manager during the 1950s, their most successful at Le mans.
Alan Stacey.
Essex racing driver who, with one leg ! managed to break into the Lotus Racing team in the late 50s, before loosing his life in a freak accident.
Chris Bristow,
london car dealer and Lotus team driver killed at Spa, an astonishingly talented driver, a world champion in the making.
lets not forget....
Trevor Taylor, Cliff Allison, Jack Sears,Ken Wharton, Dennis Poore
Tony Lanfranchi, John Rhodes and John Handley .
Mike Hawthorn, our first world champion who never recieved the credit he deserves.
Chain smoking Jaguar chassis designer and eventual chairman. Responsible for C D E Mk1/2 S Mk7/8/9 and all the XK chassis, his last great design was the XJ6/12.
Lofty England.
Jaguar competions and team manager during the 1950s, their most successful at Le mans.
Alan Stacey.
Essex racing driver who, with one leg ! managed to break into the Lotus Racing team in the late 50s, before loosing his life in a freak accident.
Chris Bristow,
london car dealer and Lotus team driver killed at Spa, an astonishingly talented driver, a world champion in the making.
lets not forget....
Trevor Taylor, Cliff Allison, Jack Sears,Ken Wharton, Dennis Poore
Tony Lanfranchi, John Rhodes and John Handley .
Mike Hawthorn, our first world champion who never recieved the credit he deserves.
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