I’m as guilty as anyone of having tightly-held opinions on how cars look.
As the brains behind this site, I’d like to think my tastes are at least cosmopolitan, whatever that means (then Audi or Jaguar shows some future industrial appliance concept and I find myself gnawing at the ragebait.)
Worse for me, when I was a kid, I wanted design cars. It was all I thought of. I’d sketch them all day long while at school — side views only — then come home and make designs out of Lego. I’d draw, a lot, and could go through white copy paper faster than a lawyer’s office.
Somewhere along the line, I got it into my head that I wouldn’t be a very good car designer (without giving it a go) and that was the end of that.
Maybe it would have been easier if someone in my family was a car designer, like Virgil Exner Jr’s father, Virgil Exner Sr. Exner Sr. is a forefather of concept cars, who was instrumental in pushing design as a viable pillar of the automotive business.
Simca Special in its original form, in an appropriately low-res image • source unknown
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