Lincoln Design Heritage: Zephyr to LS (1936-2000)
Lincoln Design Heritage: Zephyr to LS (1936-2000) is an exhaustively and throughly researched book that chronologically records the development of the Lincoln mark. Great book review. Many photos.
The Cellini of Chrome
The Story of George W. Walker review by Helen Hutchings
Maestro: Bill Mitchell, Second Edition
Dean’s Garage reviews Maestro: Bill Mitchell, Second Edition by Roy Lonberger.
Studio Art Found Online, Part Three
More Studio Art found online.
Studio Art Found Online, Part Two
More Studio Art found online.
Airstream, America’s World Traveler
The story of Wally Byam’s trailer.
Wide Open Muscle
The rarest of the rare. New book review.
American Muscle Cars—A Full-Throttle History
Not just another book of shiny car photos.
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.
Corvette News, 1958–1966
Only Corvette owners could get Corvette News and I didn’t own a Corvette, or know anybody that had one.
Maestro: Bill Mitchell and the Iconic Cars of GM Styling
The untold story behind GM’s most iconic cars.
Harry Bradley’s Mitchell GP
Text and photos complements of the car’s owner and builder, Dave Crook.
Corvette—America’s Star-Spangled Sports Car, The Complete History
An exhaustive historical account that you can’t put down.
50 Years of American Automobile Design 1930–1980
This post features artwork by Richard Nesbitt.
Testing a Small Chevrolet
“It has that big car look, but only one of us was easily able to occupy it.”
Studio Art Collector Federic Sharf
Sharf now has thousands of car drawings, mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Automotive Age Hotel
A monument to the automotive age in the middle of Las Vegas.
Peter Maier, Designer, Master Realist, Part Two
Multi-layering process and technique.
Jeff Gold’s Rescued Studio Art Collection
A remarkable collection of original studio art.
Peter Maier, Designer, Master Realist—Part One
Nobody I had ever encountered before could have possibly adequately prepared me for meeting Pete Maier.
Harley Earl’s Scrapbooks
Rare illustrations.
Mott’s Spot Cartoons
Telepathic cars.
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.
Of Firebirds and Moonmen, Part Two
Firebird III Motorama Production Filming at the GM Mesa Proving Grounds.