Every year, the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan adds a few influential people to their archives. The Automotive Hall of Fame has the task of preserving the most important ideas and moments in automotive history, so it’s quite an honor to be inducted.
That’s why I was happy to hear at the New York International Auto Show that Wunibald Kamm, designer of the Kammback, will be inducted in 2009. In 1938, he helped BMW design the first Kamm-Coupe, a 328 with a .25 drag coefficient, matching the first generation Honda Insight.
Clearly, his ideas were ahead of his time and never widely adopted, but with fuel economy coming back to the forefront of automotive design, Kamm is finally getting some attention.
This is of special import to us ecomodders, since the Kammback is one of the most effective and possibly coolest looking aeromods around. For some more reading on actual Kammbacks (including the one in the picture above), check out these threads:
- Geo Metro Kammback Design and Construction: Step by step.
- Better Minivan Gas Mileage with a Kammback: 3.7% better, to be exact.
- Civic VX Kammback: Clean looking install on a Civic VX.
- Building a Del Sol Kammback: The Del Sol is a perfect Kammback candidate.
- Another Civic Hatch Kammback: Another clean-looking Kammback
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