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Edward T. Welburn

Edward T. Welburn

Automobile designer

Oct 21, 2026

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11:21
Some very interesting
11:23
leaves.
11:24
And I was finally convinced the car is just gone.
11:30
So we're developing this exhibit over the past, say, nine months.
11:35
I mean, and it's a tremendous exhibit, the space.
11:39
And, you know, we did not allocate space to the Wiggins Festival because the car was lost.
11:47
Two months before the exhibit opened, I got a call from a good friend, Keith Flickinger.
15:30
What can people experience? What are people going to see when they go to this exhibit?
21:01
That's ridiculous, Ed.
21:03
I know, I know.
21:05
We had three weeks.
21:06
And so it's not a restoration.
21:09
It's a preservation.
21:11
And there are things like, You know, these shops at Keith Rose, they have everything.
21:18
They even have a whole storage of rusty bolts from that period.
25:05
What
12:01
It was a term,
12:02
you know, period.
12:03
You know, 57 came, and right before the 57s came out, One of the designers got a sneak look at what Ford was doing, much lower and sleeker than the plain 57 Chevy.
12:19
But it was too late to change.
12:22
So what they did with moldings made the car look longer.
12:26
It went from 15-inch wheels down to 14s.
12:30
To make the car look big.

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