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Old 01-16-2025, 01:36 AM   #4244 (permalink)
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Do you know of Strother MacMinn?

He taught at the Art Center School in Los Angles for 40 years and published Sports Cars of the Future. In 1957 Road & Track published the article, "Beauty and the Beetle," showing how the Volkswagen Beetle might be redesigned.

carstylecritic.blogspot.com: 1957 VW Redesigns by Strother Mac Minn and Bob Gurr
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Strother MacMinn Redesign
MacMinn also reduced the height and might have increased the rear overhang (it's hard to be sure, given the perspectives he used in the renderings). I think his redesign is much more successful than Gurr's. That's because it retains a VW "feeling" or spirit. It also has a more "timeless" appearance than Gurr's 1955-based design.
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