commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Deliberate.No shame at all. Ya think it was by dumb luck or deliberate? I don't think the formal is quite as w-i-d-e?
The design for the 74's were all locked up and approved with no Imperial planned.
In the final hours, a couple of designers thought it was a shame that there would be no Imp so they sat down and drew up some "what if's". Purely speculative. Some top brass walked by, saw the drawings, liked it, and said let's do it.
The story I heard was they had like six weeks to come up with the tooling. The rear bumper was supposedly a bastard to punch out correctly.
That car almost never came to be.