I would like to know if he would like to attend the Walter P chrysler Meet
in Mpls the 3rd week in July.
I willl have more questions for him.....gj
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>From: "Mike & Christine Trettin" <mtrettin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: IML: Virgil Exner, Jr. OIC "Interview"....Questions?
>Date: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 4:20 PM
>
>On New Year's Eve, the club heard from none other than Virgil Exner, Jr.,
>who wrote into the website with the following message:
>
>"I appreciate your sustaining this article on your great site. I've
>picked it up on my site. Father would be flabbergasted and very proud of
>you all and Mr Katz.
>
>Happy New Year!
>
>Ex, Jr.
>http://community.webtv.net/X-isle/XJRDesignExcitement";
>
>
>How cool is that!? Many of us fans are very familiar with that name, and
>have read quite a bit about our fin-designing hero, and have even engaged on
>this list in good-natured partisan discussions about the merits of Exner vs.
>Engel styling, etc. For those who don't know who Virgil Exner or his son
>are, though, and are interested, please take a look at the article that
>prompted Ex, Jr.'s comments:
>http://www.imperialclub.com/ImpFormativeArticles/Exner/index.html
>
>or this one, about the 1953 Chrysler Ghia Special:
>http://www.imperialclub.com/ImpFormativeArticles/Special/index.htm
>
>Now Mr. Exner, Jr. has cordially offered to allow me a telephone "interview"
>next week, and I'd like to solicit questions that anyone might like to ask.
>I will try not to waste his time with generic questions that have already
>been answered in books and articles, but here is our opportunity to ask
>those burning questions--like the recently-discussed "was cross wind
>stability REALLY a design factor when tailfins were developed?" ;-) --that
>we'd like to know about our wonderful Imperials and other Chryslers, or
>about Ex, Jr.'s own career, etc.
>
>Please let me know if you have a specific question for Mr. Exner.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Mike Trettin
>1956 Imperial Sedan, Turquoise
>
>
>
>
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