Designer of the Bricklin Passes

[Tuckerfan1053]

Also worked on the Batmobile and a number of other cars, it seems. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010 ... rb-grasse/

A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, he designed and modeled cars for Chrysler, Ford and Nissan, lending his design work to the Challenger, the Australian XD Ford Falcon and many Asia-Pacific products of the latter two companies. However, it’s outside of the big automotive companies where most people would recognize his work: While an associate designer for George Barris, he helped transform the Ford Futura concept car into TV’s Batmobile; and while working with Malcolm Bricklin, he single-handedly designed the Bricklin SV1, an effort that resulted in multiple awards.

[Ohio AMX]

The Bricklin is a great design, although most people believe they are kit cars. I have always liked them especially because of the AMC connection, all '74s were 360 AMC powered before they switched to Ford engines for 1975. It is commonly thought this switch was due to AMC not being able to supply enough engines but there is genuine speculation that the real reason was Malcolm Bricklin's remark about the "ugly" new Matador Coupe which caused AMC to cut him off.