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Bill Dayton, Chrysler designer that finished the Diablo


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Bill Dayton, Chrysler designer that finished the Diablo passed away March 2nd 2018. (Sad news that I recently heard from his widow.)

 

Bill Dayton moved to Italy on assignment from Chrysler in 1989 to finish/revise the Diablo design. (Chrysler was not happy with the Gandini design, and felt that it needed changes - the Diablo we have is what resulted.)

 

Bill was a kind gentlemen, and lived local to me in Michigan. I was fortunate enough to meet him at a car event in Michigan where I had my Diablo entered, he walked up quietly and pointed out a couple features, and commented... I remember designing that in the late 80's. (Of course I thought he was talking non-sense until he told me a little more!)

 

May his soul rest in peace.

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To be honest he was the right man for the job, the Gandini design was interesting to say the least but stuck in a time warp, the newly deigned Diablo fit very well with the upcoming times of curve, flow and function, imo a much prettier design and one of the best looking cars of all-time.

 

 

 

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To be honest he was the right man for the job, the Gandini design was interesting to say the least but stuck in a time warp, the newly deigned Diablo fit very well with the upcoming times of curve, flow and function, imo a much prettier design and one of the best looking cars of all-time.

 

 

 

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Yeah, we have to consider Dayton a significant part of Lamborghini history. RIP.

 

BTW, I find it interesting that the Diablo from '91-'99 has the Gandini signature on it but the GT and 6.0 do not (because the Audi version supposedly made too many changes for his liking).

 

Yet, the base '91 is more changed from Gandini's original design than a 6.0 was from a '99. Once you accepted the Diablo as your own despite the changes, why quibble over the nuance of the later cars?

 

Strange.

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