Cartel Blue Inc (CRTL)

[cwynn]

Dog, I'll reach out tomorrow and see if I can make contact. My phone numbers for him are GM based, as is his email, but let me work on it and if I can't locate him directly, I believe that some former colleagues will know where he can be reached.

When he was at Chrysler in 1990, Lutz became interested in a company we'd funded that featured the Chrysler mini-van as the platform for handicapped operator use (no bump in the floor due to FWD, so a wheelchair bound driver could come out to his vehicle, via a remote control have the mini-van squat to a position where a hydraulic ramp would distend and lower from the sliding passenger door area, and he could then scoot his wheelchair in, lock the wheels in custom slots in front of the steering wheel and then use hand controls to drive).

Anyway, Lutz loved the idea that we were buying 200-300 minivans at a time and got involved as much for the "good cause" aspect as for the sales.

Of interest was that Lutz thought that all the handicapped adaptive equipment would significantly impact performance, due to the added weight, so he hooked us up with the 230 hp turbo 4cyl motors that Carroll Shelby had done for the Chrysler Omni, which made for perfect sleeper red light grand prix racing by gearheads in wheelchairs.... very cool stuff!