Wat_Tyler
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My Ford sure is.
It has yet to live up to all the jokes and it's a 2010...
The coming of age for the boomer generation in the mid-Sixties might have meant sales success stories like the Ford Mustang. But with all those freshly minted drivers on the road, it also meant more cars on the road, and thus more traffic. To combat that anticipated traffic, a one-time Tucker designer pitched Ford on a unique auto-bus combination as part of an ambitious urban planning scheme.
When it came to automobiles, George S. Lawson “was very willing to try something different,” according to friend and fellow designer Victor Froelich, quoted in Michael Lamm’s profile on Lawson in the March-April 1978 issue of Special Interest Autos. His contemporaries – among them Bill Mitchell, Virgil Exner, and Alex Tremulis – lauded his skills as a designer, artist, and innovator as well as his ability to render designs that work well in three-dimensional sheetmetal.
Though his auto design career began in 1935 at GM (to which he’d return at least a couple times), Lawson also spent time at Briggs, as head of experimental design at American Motors, and for a short time as Preston Tucker’s initial designer for the Tucker Torpedo. But, like many other gifted auto designers (particularly those assigned to advanced styling), he didn’t fit well into corporate culture and eventually struck out on his own as a freelance designer to pursue his own visions of a radically redesigned future.