Some Values Can't Be Measured.(Column)

Byline: Kevin Wilson The first time I wrote about Ed Welburn was in September 1987. He was then a 37-year-old Oldsmobile designer who had been doodling this one, Le Mans-inspired car shape for a decade and-against odds-had just seen it become real in the form of the Oldsmobile Aerotech. I'd gone to watch it run at a giant test oval in Fort Stockton, in godforsaken, far west dad-gummit Texas, where A.J.

Foyt set several speed records in Welburn's dream car. When Welburn took the podium as the keynote speak- er at the 2004 AutoWeek Design Forum, I remember-ed that period for ...

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