David gittens biography
David Gittens was an artist and designer, and was an employee of Car and Driver magazine, as a staff photographer, from to
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Ikenga GT
British prototype automobile
Motor vehicle
The Ikenga GT is a series of three prototype GT automobile designs that were built in the United Kingdom between and The MkI, MkII and MkIII were the three styling iterations.
History
David Gittens is an Igbo, Nigerian-American artist and designer who was a staff photographer at Car and Driver magazine from to [1] He was born in Brooklyn, and in he married and moved to London England, where he did photographic work for advertising and fashion publications.
In he embarked on a career in transportation design. Among his proposed projects were a gas-powered single seat city car, an electric city car, a Reliant-based three-wheeled car, an expandable six-wheeled vehicle, a small car based on the Mini Moke chassis, and a high-performance mid-engined grand touring car that became the Ikenga GT.[2]
Gittens bought a used McLaren chassis from Ken Sheppard.[3][4] Sheppard was also to handl