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14/06/2020 2:37 pm
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... Pics of Robert Lawhn's Fischer Body Craftsman Guild cars
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The red model is 1967 (1st place Texas and Regional Award; $1,000 scholarship). The green model is 1966 (1st Place Texas and Regional Award). The Regional Award was for 40 contestants and was a trip to the Guild convention in Warren MI for 3 days in July.
14/06/2020 2:55 pm
Wow!! That is just outstanding!! Thanks for treating us to these pics !
15/06/2020 1:18 pm
The green model is very 'Pintoesque'. Robert, did Ford copy your design ?
16/06/2020 6:24 am
I don't think so. I have a good friend who was a designer at Ford from 1967-1973. He worked on the Pinto project and said the goal was to make the cheapest car they could.
The design of the 1966 entry (which came together in the Summer of 1965) was GM's Monza GT concept car, which had a wraparound "greenhouse" window design with no visible "A" pillars. I did not want to copy the Monza so I first drew a form that resembled a sun visor on your hat. I then added a body form of the same shape. At that point I had what resembled a "boomerang on steroids". I added a full width taillight between the trailing rear fenders. Then I added the wheels and had a design unlike anything I had previously entered in the Guild.
The model received the Regional Award, which was a trip to the Guild convention in Warren MI in July 1966. My roommate in the hotel for 3 days was a Sophomore at the Art Center College of Design in California and he won the 1st Place National Award. We told me he created his design by first drawing the top view of the car. I took the same approach for the red model in 1967, using the image of a rocket assemble at Cape Kennedy ready for launch. That model was in another league from my previous entries and earned me a $1,000 scholarship, which covered a year of college.
16/06/2020 3:34 pm
Thank-you Robert. That was a treat to hear of your adventure. It must have been hard to contain your excitement with being chosen for the Guild.
16/06/2020 3:50 pm
Wow, I googled the Monza Concept model and a few related subjects came up. One of them was the book about the Craftsman Guild and there on page 238 is Roberts Red Concept Design. Great to read about the all the different materials you used to create your model. Ford dashboard knobs for hupcaps..? Amazing !
16/06/2020 3:51 pm
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16/06/2020 3:54 pm
As a young automotive enthusiast and artist I always dreamed that would be me. I'd be lying...
... if I said I wasn't monumentally envious!
17/06/2020 10:25 am
Marlowe - I've seen some of your model work and
I too am envious of your skills.