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An interview with Roy Lonberger, Part 1
Bill Mitchell—Maestro The Golden Years of GM Styling: A personal recollection of William Mitchell, Vice President of General Motors Styling by Roy Lonberger Heritage Center Interview In April 2011 Roy...
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An Interview with Roy Lonberger, Part 2
The Golden Years of GM Styling: A personal recollection of William Mitchell, Vice President of General Motors Styling Astro-1 by Roy Lonberger Heritage Center Interview, Part 2 In April 2011 Roy...
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Geza Loczi’s Seven Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild Models
Don’t miss the Fisher Body Model Car Show at the Arizona Biltmore, Jan 18-19, 2013. “Stick-to-itiveness.” Geza Loczi graduated from the Art Center College of Design in 1965. Then on to General Motors...
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GM Designer Bill Michalak
By Bill Michalak Concept rendering for 1973 Olds Cutlass. This brown rendering was done in marker and pastel. My desire to design cars for General Motors started at the age of eight. Like many other...
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1966 Oldsmobile Toronado Development
Dick Ruzzin’s Personal account of the development of the ’66 Tornado Artwork by Dick Ruzzin I was new and experiencing my first design program of note. It was all like magic, as sketches, words and...
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Corvette Sting Ray: Genesis of an American Icon
A New Book by Peter Brock This post features the Press Release from BRE about Peter Brock’s new book, a summary of the book, and a gallery of several pages. Ordering information is at the end of the...
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1965 Pontiac Banshee: The Story of the XP-833
Wail in the Night: The Poor Man’s Corvette? by Steve Magnante. Photos by David Freers. Source: Motor Trend, January 2013 Imagine yourself as the general manager of Chevrolet in 1966. You’re at the...
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Motor Trend Classic Chuck Jordan Interview
Interview with Chuck Jordan, GM’s Chief Designer The General’s Tailor: Chuck Jordan, who in 1986 became only the fourth chief designer in GM’s history, offers his candid views on what makes a great...
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The Studio Art Collection of George Prentice
George Prentice graciously provided his studio art collection. Designers represented include Ken Okuyama, Allen Young, Glen Durmisevich, Walt Gershick, Chuck Stebbons, Norm Selnes, Glen Winterscheit,...
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Steve Small
By George Prentice “They say” that Steve Small was very eccentric at Art Center and that he slept on a bed of straw. “They say” he had a summer internship at FoMoCo; and rather than find a place to...
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Bill Porter’s Inside Buick Studio
Designing Buicks in the 1980s and 1990s Buick Studio, 1984 Bill Porter tells his story of his years as Chief Designer of Buick I Studio from 1980 to 1996. 47 minutes. I was a designer in Buick I in...
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Dave Holls’ Career
From Sketches, Special Edition, April 24 , 1991 In Brief As we put this special edition of Sketches together in honor of Dave’s retirement, certain aspects of Dave’s character surfaced again and again...
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Remembering Chuck Jordan
By Dick Ruzzin What kind of a designer was he? This has to be the first question for me. You could give Chuck no greater compliment than to say that he was a car designer. He was outstanding and...
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GM Designer Bill Michalak
By Bill Michalak Concept rendering for 1973 Olds Cutlass. This brown rendering was done in marker and pastel. My desire to design cars for General Motors started at the age of eight. Like many other...
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1966 Oldsmobile Toronado Development
Dick Ruzzin’s Personal account of the development of the ’66 Tornado. Artwork by Dick Ruzzin I was new and experiencing my first design program of note. It was all like magic, as sketches, words...
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Corvette Sting Ray: Genesis of an American Icon
A New Book by Peter Brock This post features the Press Release from BRE about Peter Brock’s new book, a summary of the book, and a gallery of several pages. Ordering information is at the end of the...
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1965 Pontiac Banshee: The Story of the XP-833
Wail in the Night: The Poor Man’s Corvette? by Steve Magnante. Photos by David Freers. Source: Motor Trend, January 2013 Imagine yourself as the general manager of Chevrolet in 1966. You’re at the...
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Motor Trend Classic Chuck Jordan Interview
Interview with Chuck Jordan, GM’s Chief Designer The General’s Tailor: Chuck Jordan, who in 1986 became only the fourth chief designer in GM’s history, offers his candid views on what makes a great...
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The Studio Art Collection of George Prentice
George Prentice graciously provided his studio art collection. Designers represented include Ken Okuyama, Allen Young, Glen Durmisevich, Walt Gershick, Chuck Stebbons, Norm Selnes, Glen Winterscheit,...
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Steve Small
By George Prentice “They say” that Steve Small was very eccentric at Art Center and that he slept on a bed of straw. “They say” he had a summer internship at FoMoCo; and rather than find a place to...
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