Re: Re: IML: Suicide doors / Engel designs

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Dear Paul,

You make a good point here.  The 64-66 Imperial definitely uses a parallelogram 
shape 
in side view.  When I said "imitate" I didn't mean he copied Lincoln exactly.  
Engel 
definitely changed some things and improved some others.  I would call it an 
"evolution" 
of his design work that began at Ford in the late 50's, sort of like different 
branches of the 
same tree.

You see the forward slanting parallelogram in a lot of Chrysler cars from that 
era.  I 
always thought it was interesting, because GM tended to favor a totally 
rectangular look, 
and later a kind of backward slanting look, if that makes any sense.  But the 
Imperials 
seem to look like they're leaning forward, already in motion.

Mark

> From: RandalPark@xxxxxxx
> Date: 2004/03/23 Tue PM 08:09:20 EST
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: IML: Suicide doors / Engel designs
> 
> Styling studies of the era have indicated that the Lincoln was deliberately 
>designed as 
a rectangle while the Imperial was deliberately designed as a parallelogram. If 
Engel 
had wanted to simply copy the Lincoln, this never would have been the case. 
Great effort 
was made to differentiate the styles from each other. Admittedly, the Lincoln 
came first 
and if it had not been successful, the similar Imperial would not have followed 
it. 
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