Original Cerbera sketches.
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crazynick said:
Hi All
To answer your Q about where I am,back in UK from Japan last 6-months having worked everywhere sonce leaving in 97 - Lotus / Nissan/ Daihatsu/ etc
To answer your Q about where I am,back in UK from Japan last 6-months having worked everywhere sonce leaving in 97 - Lotus / Nissan/ Daihatsu/ etc
ok then... may I ask where are you working now/ do you have any good contacts at any of your previous employers?? (Coventry Auto Design student! - next year is my professional enhancement year.) Thanks in advance,
BCA
Also, thanks for the Cerb, I still spend ages just staring at it even though we've had it six years!!
The interior is probably the best bit... close though, the rear 3/4 view is stunning too!
A friend of ours described it as "sitting in a very expensive wallet". Then started to swear as the wallet went round a roundabout and leapt onto a dual carriageway at speeds that only a Cerbera seems to manage. 
A friend of ours described it as "sitting in a very expensive wallet".
Then started to swear as the wallet went round a roundabout and leapt onto a dual carriageway at speeds that only a Cerbera seems to manage. BCA said:
Also, thanks for the Cerb, I still spend ages just staring at it even though we've had it six years!!
"The bloke who designed the Cerbera dash" has ALWAYS been an "unknown hero" to me, just a bloke who I figured I'd never meet but would love to shake the hand of. Because, like you BCA, I think the Cerbera is a masterpiece - in particular the interior.
Last year we were getting ready to go down to Goodwood for the Christmas Ball. I popped out to get some cash: "I'll be back in a minute." As I pulled up outside HSBC in Milton Keynes, there was a couple stood on the pavement staring at my car. By the time I'd got out of the car, the bloke had walked around to the front and said something like "these have changed a bit since my day."
"It's a one-off" I replied.
"I was one of the Cerbera designers - I did the interior" said the stranger, who'd just moved to MK that day with his girlfriend.
Knock me down with a feather. How cool is that? Turns out Nick is almost a feckin neighbour!!! For me, meeting the Cerbera interior designer ranked right up there with meeting Gordon Murray and Debbie Harry. I was out for about 45 minutes so returned to a frown: "where have you been?" "You'll never guess what...!!!!!"
To be fair, Nick is very modest about the whole interior thing and tells a detailed story of the stages it went through and the input of others (esp Wheeler) to get to where it is. But it's plain as day in the 'spaceship sketches' where the best cockpit ever started out.
Nick sat in my garden last weekend drawing things I'd buy all day long. He belongs at TVR I think and if he was there, I think they'd start shifting cars again. Chim/Griff/Speed 12 all have CrazyNick's thumbprint on them to greater and lesser degrees. Original Speed 12 'snap shots' are a bit tasty, when it was all black. Batman eat yer heart out.
Hi
Feel free, but credit where it's due,
Other people contributed to the cars.
Thanx to Bess Cerbera for posting em here - I hove no idea how!
Will try to add othersas I find em.
Regarding current work location, I am in Luton working for a design / digital modelling /recruitment company.
Technicondesign.co.uk, click on portfolio page if you have one to add/ loooking for adesign job.
Feel free, but credit where it's due,
Other people contributed to the cars.
Thanx to Bess Cerbera for posting em here - I hove no idea how!
Will try to add othersas I find em.
Regarding current work location, I am in Luton working for a design / digital modelling /recruitment company.
Technicondesign.co.uk, click on portfolio page if you have one to add/ loooking for adesign job.
When I first saw the Cerbera I thought Wow! that is beautiful, when I drove the Cerbera I had to have one.
It took me 8 months to find the right one for me and when I sat in it, I fell in love, why? because of the interior, it just looked, felt and smelt so good, the interior just envelopes you and makes you feel part of the car. Curves everywhere and everything just looks so right.
I have updated the exterior and just had a black Rose upgrade but I can't think of a thing I would change on the interior. Six years on and I still find myself sitting in it and admiring your work Nick. So, to you, a huge thanks as you have made me a very happy man
It took me 8 months to find the right one for me and when I sat in it, I fell in love, why? because of the interior, it just looked, felt and smelt so good, the interior just envelopes you and makes you feel part of the car. Curves everywhere and everything just looks so right.
I have updated the exterior and just had a black Rose upgrade but I can't think of a thing I would change on the interior. Six years on and I still find myself sitting in it and admiring your work Nick. So, to you, a huge thanks as you have made me a very happy man
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