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General => Lounge => Topic started by: rodsterh on March 30, 2010, 01:35:28 PM

Title: Donald N. Frey, Designer of the Mustang, Dies at 86
Post by: rodsterh on March 30, 2010, 01:35:28 PM
Obituary--- very interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/us/29frey.html

Truly a legend.  He fought clueless management and won.


[COLOR="blue"]Mr. Frey pursued the project even though Henry Ford II, the president of the company, had turned it down four times, partly because Ford’s new Edsel had just failed so spectacularly. Lacking an official go-ahead, Mr. Frey met with Mr. Iacocca and other engineers and designers in a motel at night and in a storage room by day.“The whole project was bootlegged,” Mr. Frey told USA Today in 2004. “There was no official approval of this thing. We had to do it on a shoestring.”When Mr. Ford finally approved the project, he looked directly at Mr. Frey and told him in several unprintable words that he would be fired if the Mustang was not successful, [/COLOR]

RIP
Title: Donald N. Frey, Designer of the Mustang, Dies at 86
Post by: 88turbo on March 30, 2010, 03:25:51 PM
RIP Mr. Frey
Title: Donald N. Frey, Designer of the Mustang, Dies at 86
Post by: joshua.m1001 on March 30, 2010, 11:12:36 PM
RIP Mr. Frey and condolences to his friends and family.
Title: Donald N. Frey, Designer of the Mustang, Dies at 86
Post by: Watchdevil on March 30, 2010, 11:31:03 PM
Thank you Mr. Fray! RIP!
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