There were days long ago when computers, and their aid to design, hadn't been thought of, or applied. To design a car a man picked up a pencil, and designed... a car. They didn't make a bad job of it. Did they?
I believe Gordon Murry may be an exception to the ruleWhat has changed however...is the paper. Those first designs were done on a clean sheet...where as the modern day designer has to scribble his ideas...between the directives already penned down by the Marketing department.
The Mk1 is my favourite too, although I think the Mk2 was a creditable updating effort without losing too much of the understated simplicity of the original.I'd agree there PatB, and the Mk 1, with its curved front, was much nicer than the later 'gaping mouth' Mk 2.
I'm pleased to say that I was learning to 'drive' the Keller machine that cut the press tools for that Mk 1 front end at Pressed Steel in 1962.
And I know where the 'invisible fault' is on the RH headlamp housing.