Re: [DML] Re: Bricklin

[senatorpack@xxxx]

Dear DML,
The initial DeLorean Motor Cars LTD retained and contracted with the very 
best that the automotive industry had to offer. DeLorean hired leading firms 
with professional automotive engineers, designers with countless years of 
professional experience. The Bricklin car on the other hand is an interesting 
concept.
Herb Grasse was an antique literature dealer in Cave Creek Arizona. He 
was also one of Malcolm Bricklin' right hand men and chief designer of the 
Bricklin automobile. When I purchased a substantial amount of literature and 
books from him, he said that his Bricklin involvement led him to John 
DeLorean in 1974-1975 just at the time DMC was formed.
Evidently, John DeLorean had contacted him to design a sketch of the 
DeLorean Safety Vehicle concept....Herb had prepared a slide show, and 
sketched design elements of John DeLoreans' concept....DeLorean was not 
impressed with the Bricklin Vehicle, company, or the concept and design that 
the young designer sketched.
The winner of the bid and designer of the DeLorean was Giugiaro of 
ItalDesign. ItaLDesign is one of the most renown industrial design studios 
specializing in primarily automotive and industrial design. Many of the 
automotive upper echelon in the business have contracted ItalDesign to sketch 
their cars, like Lexus GS 400, Lotus, Bugatti, DeTomaso Mangusta, and 
DeLorean.

Michael