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| Roger
Nathan, friends, and I put the final touches on Ikenga at Radford's
and loaded it on a trailer bound for France, stopping at B.B.C. T.V.
in Shepherd's Bush for a Tomorrow's World televised feature.
The next day in Dover I bid farewell to my assistant John Quinn and
boarded the channel ferry, headed for a first exhibit in Paris and
a rare chance to drive Ikenga in city traffic.
The 1969 Italian Motor Show in Turin followed Paris. Ikenga was one of the most publicized surprises of the show and the most acclaimed British exhibit. Ikenga featured an innovative accident warning system and ultra-sound proximity sensor for parking. Bill Strutton arrived from London to assist me and many potential business connections were made. At the end of the convention Bill and I drove across the Alps for rest and recoup at La Colombe d'Or in St. Paul de Vance, where Madame Roux's warm smile and welcome was a blessing after many intense months of construction and completion; Charles Williams would be honored and proud of our success! At
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end of March 1970 our 170 mph sculpture on wheels was air
shipped to Stockholm from Nice, France as the feature of Pico Troburg's
Swedish Motor Show. Members of our team flew in from London for
the motor show; a last gathering of the clan before another chapter
in the story of Ikenga began to unfold.
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Ikenga
MK lll 1969
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Gratitude To: Mr. Bill Lundt-Smith of Radford's, Ltd. and
*Designers
note: For over ten years, following its storage in France, the
whereabouts of Ikenga were unknown. It was rediscovered in the
1980's when featured in British motorcar publications as a highly
valued collectors vehicle. The Ikenga MK III eventually became
a feature of England's Manx Motor Museum.
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