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Category Archives: Artwork and Books

Maestro: Bill Mitchell, Second Edition

Dean’s Garage reviews Maestro: Bill Mitchell, Second Edition by Roy Lonberger.

December 2, 20201 CommentArtwork and Books, Roy LonbergerBy Gary Smith

Studio Art Found Online, Part Three

More Studio Art found online.

March 21, 201913 CommentsArtwork and BooksBy Gary Smith

Studio Art Found Online, Part Two

More Studio Art found online.

March 14, 20198 CommentsArtwork and BooksBy Gary Smith

Airstream, America’s World Traveler

The story of Wally Byam’s trailer.

July 1, 2016Leave a commentArtwork and BooksBy Gary Smith

Wide Open Muscle

The rarest of the rare. New book review.

May 27, 20163 CommentsArtwork and BooksBy Gary Smith

American Muscle Cars—A Full-Throttle History

Not just another book of shiny car photos.

April 8, 20163 CommentsArtwork and BooksBy Gary Smith

Outtakes

This posts features a sampling of the hundreds of exterior shots that were not published in Chevy Tri-Five Custom Interiors and Ford Roadster Custom Interiors.

March 11, 20167 CommentsArtwork and Books, PhotographyBy Gary Smith

Corvette News, 1958–1966

Only Corvette owners could get Corvette News and I didn’t own a Corvette, or know anybody that had one.

February 18, 20168 CommentsArtwork and Books, CorvetteBy Gary Smith

Maestro: Bill Mitchell and the Iconic Cars of GM Styling

The untold story behind GM’s most iconic cars.

September 14, 20159 CommentsArtwork and Books, Roy LonbergerBy Gary Smith

Harry Bradley’s Mitchell GP

Text and photos complements of the car’s owner and builder, Dave Crook.

November 17, 20147 CommentsArtwork and Books, Harry BradleyBy Gary Smith

Corvette—America’s Star-Spangled Sports Car, The Complete History

An exhaustive historical account that you can’t put down.

September 22, 20141 CommentArtwork and Books, Karl LudvigsenBy Gary Smith

50 Years of American Automobile Design 1930–1980

This post features artwork by Richard Nesbitt.

June 6, 201415 CommentsArtwork and Books, Richard NesbittBy Gary Smith

Testing a Small Chevrolet

“It has that big car look, but only one of us was easily able to occupy it.”

October 2, 20139 CommentsArtwork and Books, Cartoons, Stan MottBy Gary Smith

Studio Art Collector Federic Sharf

Sharf now has thousands of car drawings, mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s.

September 12, 20132 CommentsArtwork and Books, Car Design, Vintage Studio ArtworkBy Gary Smith

Automotive Age Hotel

A monument to the automotive age in the middle of Las Vegas.

January 25, 20125 CommentsArtwork and Books, Cartoons, Stan MottBy Gary Smith

Peter Maier, Designer, Master Realist, Part Two

Multi-layering process and technique.

May 3, 20116 CommentsArtwork and Books, Car Design, Designers, Peter MaierBy Gary Smith

Jeff Gold’s Rescued Studio Art Collection

A remarkable collection of original studio art.

March 14, 20119 CommentsArtwork and Books, Car Design, Homer LaGassey, Rescued from the Studio Trash, Vintage Studio ArtworkBy Gary Smith

Peter Maier, Designer, Master Realist—Part One

Nobody I had ever encountered before could have possibly adequately prepared me for meeting Pete Maier.

February 10, 20115 CommentsArtwork and Books, Designers, Peter Maier, VideosBy Gary Smith

Harley Earl’s Scrapbooks

Rare illustrations.

January 19, 20113 CommentsArtwork and Books, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Rescued from the Studio Trash, Vintage Studio ArtworkBy Gary Smith

Mott’s Spot Cartoons

Telepathic cars.

December 28, 20102 CommentsArtwork and Books, GM Design Staff, Mott's Spots, Stan MottBy Gary Smith

A Century of Automotive Style

It’s no big secret that a lot of early motorcars took their body design from carriages. But it’s less obvious that carriage design evolved from shipbuilding.

December 9, 20105 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car DesignBy Gary Smith

Of Firebirds and Moonmen, Part Two

Firebird III Motorama Production Filming at the GM Mesa Proving Grounds.

November 4, 20103 CommentsArtwork and Books, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Motorama, Norman J. JamesBy Gary Smith

Of Firebirds and Moonmen, Part One

Those were the days.

October 26, 20105 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Motorama, Norman J. JamesBy Gary Smith

The Design Staff Library

We don’t know what a Baumm is.

September 28, 201011 CommentsArtwork and Books, Books, Car Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith
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