In September 1946, Milwaukee
industrial designer Brooks Stevens received a phone call from his friend Robert
Paxton McCulloch, president of McCulloch Aviation in Los Angeles. "Get your tail here double
quick," McCulloch cried. "We're going to build a car that will revolutionize
the auto industry. Front-wheel-drive. Ultra-cheap. Henry Kaiser's involved. It's
the biggest thing in the world."
At the time, Brooks Stevens remembers, "I didn't know Henry
Kaiser from a hole in the wall. I'd read of his World War II exploits – the Liberty ship program –
but that was all. And I was in the midst of another small car project for
Willys-Overland. Robert was a good friend, though, and he thought he had
something hot." So off went Brooks to Lotusland.
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