“. . . We (started facelifting) the ’51, which was a terrible looking spinner job. It had a transparent, plastic spinner inside, and, God, they were terrible looking cars. . . . I remember how that transparent spinner started out. Somebody thought it would be neat to have a light behind it, and I talked them out of that, and we painted it with opaque silver, because they were ready for production. It would have been really crazy. I think that was brought about by the fact that somebody was impressed with the Tucker or a Cyclops eye — a single headlight on a locomotive.”
— Bob E. Bourke
RE:SOURCES
- Crippen, David; 1986. “The Reminiscences of Robert E. Bourke.” Automotive Design Oral History Project of the Automobile in American Life and Society. Conducted October 23; accessed July 27, 2014 (link deactivated).
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