we had a designer in the room named irving richie, and he always loved fastback cars, especially the gm cars of the late '40s, and there hadn't been any fastbacks produced for about 10 years. so he got the idea "maybe we could make a fastback out of the valiant," and he did some sketches and finally did a full-sized layout drawing, and it looked very feasible. so the styling executives thought that was a good idea, and they presented it to the plymouth division executives. they thought it was great, too-- here'd be a low-priced, sporty car. anyway, we were given a go-ahead to do a full-sized clay model of it. i was given the task of doing some sketches for the roof, and so were a couple other designers, including richie, and one of my sketches was picked to be developed in clay, with the big backlight reverse c-pillar. and so i directed the clay modeling of that, and then actually the rear deck. one of the big problems was the big glass in the backlight, so they had the pittsburgh engineers come in and look at it, and we gave them a cast, and they finally decided, yeah, they could ma