Roy Lunn, Innovative Engineer of Celebrated Cars, Dies at 92<br />Raj Nair, the president of Ford Motor Company North America, called Mr. Lunn “the godfather of the original GT40.”<br />“The team that put together the Ford GT of today was inspired by the work of Roy<br />and his team,” Mr. Nair said in an interview on Wednesday, “and we will be forever grateful for what they started.”<br />Mr. Lunn also helped design for Ford a virtually impregnable Lincoln presidential limousine, one<br />that could withstand not just gunfire but also poison gas and exploding projectiles.<br />And that’s how the production Mustang became reality.”<br />Mr. Lunn also oversaw development of Ford’s sleek GT (Grand Touring) cars.<br />Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Mr. Lunn designed brawny cars<br />that flew (literally, in one case) off the track, hurtling along highways and racecourses and giving Ford worldwide bragging rights in the late 1960s as a four-time winner of the glamorous endurance sports-car racing crown at Le Mans, France.<br />One of Mr. Lunn’s most celebrated cars was the experimental Mustang I, a two-seat, four-cylinder<br />aluminum-bodied sports car with its engine midway between the front and rear axles.<br />Roy Lunn, a British-born engineering virtuoso whose design teams spawned celebrated American cars like Ford’s muscular GT40<br />and the original Mustang and paved the way for the rise of the S.
