[FC] Re: FC designer

[Rad Davis]

In short, yes.

I don't know who did the structural design.  I got a roundabout email a few 
years ago from the son-in-law of the Corvair FC's body designer.  If you 
check out my website, you'll see that I have photos of the styling buck 
rampside, at least.  I think I sent the lead on to Harry Jensen at CORSA 
national.

http://www.mindspring.com/~corvair/ProtoRamp.html

Beyond that, I suspect that Dave Newell has a lot of this information, but 
I have heard a lot more of it than I have seen.



At 03:52 PM 7/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>        I was just wondering if anyone has any of the history info on the
>design and development of the FC vairs. A member at the Econo site just
>recently
>discovered(after many many dead ends and countless hours of research) who the
>designer of the 61-67 Ford Econoline was. Since I just know you are all
>sitting
>on pins and needles waiting for the answer Im gonna tell you it was Roy
>Brown. Roy is currently providing some info on the production and design of
>the
>trucks he designed. Some of you may recognize the name of Roy Brown as the
>same
>guy who designed the Edsel. Kind of as "punishment" so to speak for the flop
>of
>his Edsel design,Roy was assigned to the task of designing Fords new basic
>truck/van line to directly compete with the soon to be released Corvair line
>which I believe was developed to compete with the VW's.
>        Roy is now in his 90's with declining health and thru short
>conversations is providing our contact with him some very interesting and
>valuable info
>about these unique vehicles which had huge sales volumes over the years;a far
>cry from what the Edsel produced.
>        Ok, I got a little sidetracked there for a minute.  So does anyone
>have any info similar to this?
>        Have you guys seen the pre Corvair van concept design of the
>L'Universalle. (I think I spelled that correct.) Its a combination of a Nomad
>rear
>section and a Corvair van front combined all into one. Its got a unique 2
>piece
>side folding door that opens upward. I can supply pics if anyone is interested
>in seeing it.
>
>                                                        Tim in Ky
>                                                 Econo USA Parts
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>                                Constantly parting out E100 vans and trucks
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>
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