RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND YOU
WHEN Victorian-era British mathematician John Venn developed his eponymous diagrams, consisting of “inclusive and exclusive circles… so obviously representative of the way in which any one… would attempt to visualise propositions,” as he wrote, it seems unlikely that he would ever have placed a 1968 Mercury Cyclone at the center of that overlap. (Not least of which because Venn died in 1923.) Yet the factors behind Steve Husnan’s late-1972 automotive choice, the very 1968 Mercury Cyclone you see before you, can be easily contained within the intersecting circles of a Venn diagram.
The first circle was Steve’s location: stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, attending Technical Training School a long way from his Red Hook, New York, home. That necessarily limited the scope of where he could look. He wasn’t in a position to travel hundreds of miles to see a car. It had to
