Picture in your mind's eye the chrome bumper C3 roadster, in black, with the black hard top in the vinyl covering and the fine-spoke covers with redlines. As another pundit called it, "Mike Tyson in a tuxedo."

In Mitchell's oral history shared with U-M professor and auto industry historian David R. Crippen, he was very discouraged by the path C4 was taking (don't think he lived to see the C5) - click on the link and go to page #60.

I'd excerpt it here, but WLM winds around topics quite a bit , and the transcript can be hard to follow.

Be warned, though: if you are an automotive history geek, you will want to read all the transcripts. Mitchell's and Walker's are both stellar and very revealing about the personalities, which literally shaped the cars we know and love today.