IN DAYTON, Ohio, on Sunday 25 August 1963, retired engineer Karl Probst unfolded the plans he had drawn 23 years earlier for what would become a landmark in the history of the automobile. Then 79 years old and suffering from cancer, he laid them on his bed, took one last look at them and swallowed a fatal dose of sleeping pills.
The son of a doctor, Karl Knight Probst was born in October 1883 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and like so many youngsters of the era he was
