My first job out of college with an engineering degree was working in the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, MI, starting in the fall of 1987. My job's "home" was the Package Engineering office within the Design Center (styling).
I was told (by my friend TS, who I first met at Ford, working in the same office) that Gerry Coker worked in the same office but had just retired prior to my starting. I just missed him. (The same thing happened to me when I started working for GM's Advanced Concept Center, California. A very interesting person had just retired from where I worked. He was the head of the Center and owned some interesting cars, such as a Bugatti Type 35... His name escapes me...)
The Austin-Healey 100 (with the fold down windshield) and the Sprit are a couple of my favorite designs.
Gerry "designed" those cars. It's interesting how things were done before there were such specialists as "stylists/designers/artists". Engineers and Designers (Draftsmen) did the "design" of many of the famous cars (such as the Mini, the Fiat 500, Porsche 356/550, etc.)
Interesting how DeLorean has profile drawings of the Porsche 914 & Fiat X 1/9 on the wall.
They look like picture from Road & Track magazine road test articles. When I worked at GM, I did similar type of studies where I gathered cut-away or section drawings of competitor cars (from articles, brochures, etc.) and use them when working on new concept projects.
We also did many 3/8 scale clay models when working on projects (the one that DeLorean is looking at looks like it might be 1/4 scale...
Would like to attend this "autojumble" (swap meet) and be a spectator of the hillclimb...
Would like to get this book...
