Dale,
No Problem
That book did explain the design and build process, designing and building a car is a lot of compromises between designers and engineers, really opened my eyes, for example, here is an exerpt from the back of the book: "A new crop of clay models cmmanded the studio floor. One in particular was a stunner.....The body engineers looked at it. Loved it. And saw trouble ahead.....
"Veteran engineers knew that three years from now, when the curvy, swervy,redesigned
Tuarus went into production...the designers would be in their air cinditioned studios giving interviews to awed car writers about the beauty of their creation, and the engineers from Detroit would be in Atlanta Assembly Plant hell in hundred-degree tempuratures with cars rolling off the line...while grizzled tobacco-chewing, profanity-spewing plant bosses hounded them with a kind of good-ole-boy joy, as if the guys from Dearborn had purposefully designed parts that the diemakers couldn't make dies for, the stamping plants couldn't stamp, and the assembly plant couldn't assemble.
"Was it any wonder that the body engineers regarded those lumpy, bumpy, complex sculptures on wheels with both admiration and dread.
"We wanted the cheap, easy ones" Body Engineer Schifter said. "We got the hard expensive ones."
Nothing like reading a book and recognizing a bunch of names from the people at the plant where I work at. I was hired right before the retooling for the new Taurus,back in 1995 and it was facinating to see. I bought the book a few years ago because I saw a few copies floating around when I first started at the plant.
Y'all have a good one
Bob
