The Origins of Wedge Car Design

9 MacMinn had prophesized a wedge car design movement in the 1960’s in his 1957 Road and Track article Driving the Wedge or, after 1960 What? While Ray Cannara choose to design and build his wedge car with independent inspiration, MacMinn was close by and personally photographed Ray’s car when completed. It is not the intention to catalog wedge cars in this review. A cataloging opportunity exists, but is beyond the scope of this work. In reviewing our work presented here, Paul Sable pointed out that wedge elements in automobile design appeared in very early cars. He noted the Stanley Steamer, the Seagrave Golden Arrow and other cars long before the 1960’s. History has now coalesced complete “wedge car” designs as a 1960’s – 1970’s movement. Our work focuses on that period, but acknowledges the presence of earlier cars with wedge elements in their design. 1967 Lamborghini Concept Car Mazal Preamble iii

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjA0NTk=