 Later came an exhibition of crashed cars at The New Arts Lab in London in 1970, and ultimately Ballard's novel 
Crash, published in 1973.Evans' charismatic appearance as a "hoodlum scientist" (in Ballard's description) was an inspiration for the
character of Dr. Robert Vaughan in Crash.Evans also appears in Ballard's fictionalised life story The Kindness of Women
as the psychologist Dr. Richard Sutherland.