Roy Lunn, a thirty-eight-year-old Englishman with a taste for fine suits and pocket squares. Lunn was the one Ford engineer in America who had experience building racy European automobiles. When he was in his twenties he had worked at Aston Martin, where he designed the DB2, which won Le Mans in its class in 1950 and 1951. Lunn’s little Aston became the “it car” to own in Europe as a result. Lunn joined Ford in 1953. By some accounts, he had the best job in Detroit. He was paid to draw up plans for vehicles of the future. Among his design concepts was a three-wheel flying car topped by a
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