Royston Charles Lunn was an engineer in the automotive industry.
22 Facts About Roy Lunn
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Roy Lunn had forty-one years in the design development and production of vehicles and most notably served as the head of engineering at American Motors Corporation from 1971 to 1987.
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Roy Lunn was educated in England with degrees in mechanical and aeronautical engineering.
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Roy Lunn joined Jowett in 1949 as chief designer and was involved in a variety of projects, including the first plastic-bodied car.
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Roy Lunn was the co-driver with Marcel Becquart, winning the 1952 RAC International Rally.
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In 1953, Roy Lunn joined Ford Motor Company in England and was assigned the task of starting a new Research Center in Birmingham.
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Roy Lunn transferred to the Ford plant in Dagenham as the car's product planning manager to follow the 105-E into mass production.
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Roy Lunn emigrated to the United States in 1958 and became manager of the Ford Advanced Vehicle center.
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Roy Lunn participated in the development of a 170,000-pound gross vehicle weight rating highway truck, as well as the Cardinal, Ford's first front-wheel drive automobile that became the 15-M Taunus.
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Roy Lunn was put on a special assignment to design and develop a GT racing car along with Ray Geddes and Donald N Frey.
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In 1963, under the direction of Roy Lunn, work began on an all-new racecar, loosely based on the Lola GT.
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Roy Lunn was charged to build the "ultimate Mustang" and worked with Kar Kraft, the Brighton, Michigan, specialty shop that built many of Ford's racing cars at the time, to produce the Boss 429.
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Roy Lunn joined American Motors in 1971 as the director of engineering for Jeep, which had recently been purchased by AMC from Kaiser.
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Roy Lunn was active in the Society of Automotive Engineers becoming their technical committee chairman in 1983.
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Roy Lunn was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1985.
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Roy Lunn completed his career at American Motors by forming and becoming President of Renault Jeep Sport to centralize all AMC and Renault racing activities in the US.
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Roy Lunn designed and put into production a low-cost racing car for the Sports Car Club of America, of which more than 864 Sports Renault purpose-built race cars have been built.
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Roy Lunn retired in 1985 and was immediately called back to become vice president of engineering for the AM General division of AMC.
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The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle military Jeep was going into production and Roy Lunn was charged with overseeing the corrective actions to achieve acceptance by the US Army.
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Roy Lunn retired to his home in Florida in 1987 where he continued to work on various projects.
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Roy Lunn relocated to Santa Barbara, California, in 2015 and served as a mentor to students in the mechanical engineering program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Roy Lunn suffered a stroke in late July and died of its complications on 5 August 2017.