Donald N. Frey, Designer of the Mustang, Dies at 86

March 30, 2010, 01:35:28 PM

Obituary--- very interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/us/29frey.html

Truly a legend. He fought clueless management and won.

[COLOR="blue"]Mr. Frey pursued the project even though Henry Ford II, the president of the company, had turned it down four times, partly because Ford’s new Edsel had just failed so spectacularly. Lacking an official go-ahead, Mr. Frey met with Mr. Iacocca and other engineers and designers in a motel at night and in a storage room by day.“The whole project was bootlegged,” Mr. Frey told USA Today in 2004. “There was no official approval of this thing. We had to do it on a shoestring.”When Mr. Ford finally approved the project, he looked directly at Mr. Frey and told him in several unprintable words that he would be fired if the Mustang was not successful, [/COLOR]

RIP