“My life has been blessed in many ways, I have been a car designer for over three decades, and I still feel that car design is not a job or a profession, it´s a hobby that you get paid very well for practicing. I realized that this was especially true when I noticed that all the sketches that I had been doing at home and at ACCD all these years were piling up in my drawers down in the cellar. It´s amazing to see them finally bound into a book with the same amount of passion that I put into them.”

Pinky was blessed that BMW and Porsche were so receptive and supportive of his ideas on the car projects that he was allowed to lead. These projects were all developed under unusual circumstances but, then, none of the projects he worked on were ever under usual circumstances.

What was true 30 years ago still holds true today and for the future. When he taught at ACCD, Art Center College of Design, in Switzerland, years ago, he would say to his students that especially when designing cars AVOID at all cost “the shoe box” approach to design, they had to think as if cars were “sculptures in motion”. There is no limit to creativity when sculptural shapes are free, whereas “shoe boxes” will always be “shoe boxes”! “There is no secret in designing, just a question of transforming points into curves, then developing the curves further intocreating a surface to shape the bodies of the Porsches that I was responsible for”.

Perhaps that´s why he started to look for something out of the normal of humdrum existence, something “a little” anti-establishment, maybe something in his subconciousness was emerging even then, and that was why he choose something that in those days was unheard of in Hong Kong, skateboarding. Owning a skateboard at that time was very normal in most western households, but, in the Cantonese communities in Hong Kong during the early 60´s tremendous effort was needed to find out where to buy one, then finding locations where one could practice learning to ride it without too much distraction, and finally the biggest effort, obviously, was paying for it.

Downhill skate-boarding is still as neat today in the year 2012, as it was at that time, and perhaps there is a karmic connection - Pinky´s first connection to machines in motion, his passion for skateboarding while in his secondary school in HK. Afterall, what is a board with just four wheels and while it might not be a car, this was the purest sense of transportation.