Comments on: David North with Jay Leno’s 1966 Toronado http://deansgarage.com/2009/david-north-with-jay-leno%e2%80%99s-1966-toronado/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=david-north-with-jay-leno%25e2%2580%2599s-1966-toronado Yesterday’s Look at Tomorrow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron Severson http://deansgarage.com/2009/david-north-with-jay-leno%e2%80%99s-1966-toronado/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Aaron Severson Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:53:06 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=746#comment-270 The second video is fun, but the accounts I've heard, in Bill Mitchell's 1985 interview with Dave Crippen, indicate that the building-up-the-other-fin trick was something that Mitchell did to Jack Gordon on the original '48 Cadillac design, not the '59s. Mitchell said: "Well, Gordon never liked them, and he’d sit in the wastebasket in the studio, and he was head of Cadillac, and Cole was chief engineer. Cole and I wanted to raise him, and we pulled a trick on him. We took the drawing, and instead of saying we’d raise the other drawing every day, and it looked like we were lowering it. And, Gordon heard of that later. He said, ‘You bastards you.’” (http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Mitchell/mitchellinterview.htm) I wonder which version is true.... The second video is fun, but the accounts I’ve heard, in Bill Mitchell’s 1985 interview with Dave Crippen, indicate that the building-up-the-other-fin trick was something that Mitchell did to Jack Gordon on the original ’48 Cadillac design, not the ’59s. Mitchell said:

“Well, Gordon never liked them, and he’d sit in the wastebasket in the studio, and he was head of Cadillac, and Cole was chief engineer. Cole and I wanted to raise him, and we pulled a trick on him. We took the drawing, and instead of saying we’d raise the other drawing every day, and it looked like we were lowering it. And, Gordon heard of that later. He said, ‘You bastards you.’”

(http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Mitchell/mitchellinterview.htm)

I wonder which version is true….

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