mfg Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 When Avanti designer Tom Kellogg said "It's Cosmic", what was he referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 Because it was, like, out of this world man! Seriously, was it because supposedly Raymond wanted the shape of the wheel openings to match the reentry curve of a rocket (or something like that)? I'm really reaching on this one.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 13 hours ago, r1lark said: Because it was, like, out of this world man! Seriously, was it because supposedly Raymond wanted the shape of the wheel openings to match the reentry curve of a rocket (or something like that)? I'm really reaching on this one.......... Good thought!,.....however, that is not what Tom was referring to......Anyone else want to give this one a try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 Any other thoughts on this question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 That the car had a spirit that kept people trying to revive it (Altmans, Blake, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 22 hours ago, r1lark said: That the car had a spirit that kept people trying to revive it (Altmans, Blake, etc). Another good guess...but that isn't it! OK, I'm going to give the answer to this question.........Kellogg was referring to the 'AVX'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 Here is the quote from one of his obituaries that I based my second answer on: "I've concluded that the car is cosmic," Kellogg told Associated Press in 2000. "It has some sort of personality or spirit that keeps finding people to take it over and stroke it and keep it going." So, he was specifically talking about the AVX as opposed to all the various generations of the Avanti line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 8 minutes ago, r1lark said: Here is the quote from one of his obituaries that I based my second answer on: "I've concluded that the car is cosmic," Kellogg told Associated Press in 2000. "It has some sort of personality or spirit that keeps finding people to take it over and stroke it and keep it going." So, he was specifically talking about the AVX as opposed to all the various generations of the Avanti line? Hi Paul, the answer came from ' Avanti Magazine', Issue 130,.....I took the text to mean the AVX (from a Jim Bunting write up)....however, re-reading it, you may very well be correct in saying that Kellogg meant ALL Avantis in general....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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