The Origins of Wedge Car Design

5 Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................ i PREAMBLE ................................................................. iii PART I— A BRIEF REVIEW OF WEDGE CARS Introduction .................................................................. 1 Wedge Car Definitions ................................................. 7 Strother MacMinn ......................................................... 9 Giorgetto Giugiaro ........................................................ 11 Marcello Gandini .......................................................... 13 Additional Designers .................................................... 17 From Concept Cars to Production Cars ....................... 21 PART II— DIGGING DEEPER DIGGING DEEPER Introduction .................................................................. 27 Transitional Wedge Car Evolution ................................ 29 PART III— YOUNG DESIGNERS LEAD THE WAY Walt Woron’s Words Echo Today ................................ 33 ArtCenter College of Design ........................................ 35 The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild ......................................... 37 Ken Ebert’s & David McIntosh’s Ocelot (1964) ........................ 41 Kerne Ericksen’s GT (1964) ..................................................... 47 Kiyoyuki “Ken” Ikuyama ........................................................... 51 Brian Geiszler .......................................................................... 53 PART IV— THE 1966 CANNARA: THE FIRST PURE WEDGE CAR Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild Scholarship............................. 57 Building the Cannara: 1964 and 1965 ..................................... 59 The ArtCenter Years ............................................................... 61 Traveling to California: 1966 and 1967 .................................... 63 Strother MacMinn Photos ........................................................ 65 The Cannara Interior ................................................................ 71 The Cannara Debut at Amelia in 2022 ..................................... 73 1966 Cannara and the 1969 Autobianchi Runabout ..................................................... 75 Technical Specifications .......................................................... 77 Conclusion ............................................................................... 79 Epilogue: Wedge Shaped Car Design Going Forward ............. 81 Appendix Shown on Next Page

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