04-04-2002, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin,
Posts: 3,505
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I talked to Phil about the Lyon's article and the evolution of the J-Car to the Mark IV and he said that the revamping of the body to the IV actually took place and was completed in one weekend. He said a couple of stylist from Ford came down and put up clay on the J-Car and then Phil told them where to start sculpting. Pretty amazing. He said the only time the automatic transmission was ever used was in the Miles car that crashed.
I asked him if he was the designer of the aluminum honeycomb frame initially used in the J-Car and he indicated that Kar Kraft was responsible for that not him. He said after the Miles crash, they had to reinforce the unit.
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