Who is YOUR car hero?

[Question]

I think I'm gonna have to add Don Yenko to my list as well.

[Denis]

Bill Jenkins
Keith Black

[95fbirdkid]

vin diesel

[BobsSilverSix]

Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins

[JusFlyinBy]

The Bandit... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Oh wait a sec, I guess I shoulda read into this a little more... lol.

[memphis_raines]

Can I change mine? I said Eli Whitney, but I completely forgot Paul Walker! :rolleyes:

[FirebirdGT]

John Lingenfelter

Reeves Callaway

Carol Shelby

[misterjuice]

Gottlieb Daimler

[T-Punk]

John Lingenfelter for making the best Corvette ever. Don Yenko for getting the bright idea to offer the first gen camaro with the 427. And Bob Lutz for starting to get GM turned in the right direction.

[Mighty Thor]

John Delorean.

[fbirdgt01]

all hail the all might John Lingenfelter.

[Everglades W68]

Click and Clack.

[malice10985]

I have a good one...

Scott Cook and his 10 second GTP. He works for intense. I really like the products he sells too.

[ABH]

Originally posted by memphis_raines:


I would have to say Eli Whitney. Many people only know him for his invention of the cotton gin, but he also invented the concept of interchangeable parts, which made the concept of the assembly line possible.

True, but Henry Leland, of Cadillac and Lincoln fame, proved it worked with cars.

In 1908 in front of the Royal Auto Club, three Cadillacs were taken apart, and with the parts thoroughly mixed up, put back together and driven. Until then, alot of filing and hammering and sawing were required to get the parts to fit.

My picks:

Henry Ford for putting the world on wheels.
Edsel Ford for the Continental MK I.
W.C. Ford for the Continental Mk II.
Lee Iacocca for getting the Mustang to market.
John DeLorean for the GTO.
Larry Shinoda for his work on the split window Vette.
Bob Tasca for the 428 Mustang.
Shelby, Don Yenko, Baldwin-Motion, Mr Norm, Nicky Chevrolet.
Alex Troutman for not allowing the Probe to succeed the Mustang.

[memphis_raines]

Originally posted by ABH:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by memphis_raines:


I would have to say Eli Whitney. Many people only know him for his invention of the cotton gin, but he also invented the concept of interchangeable parts, which made the concept of the assembly line possible.

True, but Henry Leland, of Cadillac and Lincoln fame, proved it worked with cars.

</font>[/QUOTE]Yes, but that goes back to Whitney's concept of making all the parts exactly the same so that it could be done. He did it with muskets used by the military.