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 While scale models from Detroit's automakers offer significant
historic glimpses into the automobile development process and seldom
come up for public auction, they rarely warrant headlines by themselves.
Exceptions can be made, however, particularly for models that represent
the last physical evidence of a lost concept car and that come from the
fertile mind of one of Detroit's leading designers - as is the case
with this model of the Ford Gyron concept car that will head to auction
later this year.
In 1956, Alex Tremulis, then head of Ford's Advanced Studio,
conceived of the two-wheeled, gyroscopically stabilized, delta-shaped
Gyron as "a genuine breakthrough that would influence all future car
design," according to Jim and Cheryl Farrell, writing in their book Ford Design Department Concepts and Showcars, 1932-1961.
"He told anyone who would listen that he thought his idea represented
the ultimate in aerodynamic design (an overarching philosophy of
Tremulis's throughout his career). Ford Motor Co., on the other hand,
thought of the Gyron as a two-passenger showcar only, and never as a
predictor of what was to come on production Fords."
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