Dean’s GarageDean’s Garage
Dean’s Garage
Yesterday’s Look at Tomorrow
  • Categories
    • Artwork and Books
    • Cartoons
    • Rescued from the Studio Trash
    • Vintage Studio Artwork
    • Audio
    • Car Design
      • American Motors
      • Buick
      • Bugatti (Ron Kellogg)
      • Chrysler Design
      • Corvette
      • Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild
      • Ford Design
      • GM BrochuresRare GM brochures from the 50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Category will include brochures of GM Styling Staff, and GM Technical Center, with photos of the inside of working studios. To come are scans of brochures featuring the Firebird III, Monza GT, and others.
      • GM Design
      • Oldsmobile Achieva SCXHistory of the development of the 1992 Oldsmobile Achieva.
      • Peterbilt
      • Packard Design
      • Studebaker Design
      • Quotes
    • Contributors
    • Designers
    • League of Retired Designers
    • Locomotives
    • Models
    • Motorcycles
    • People
    • Photography
    • Porsche
    • Public Service Announcements
    • Racing
    • Really Old Stuff
    • Stories
    • Stories, fictionFun stories about cars and stuff.
    • VideosOld corporate promotional and advertising videos, including the American Look, Streamlines, Corvair in Action, Styling and the Experimental Car, and many others.
  • Donations
  • Links
  • About Dean’s Garage
  • 1965 Corvette C2R
  • Dean’s Garage Book Ordering
Menu back  

Tag Archives: Harley Earl

The Ford Mustang Was Conceived By…Shhhh…

Here’s a story you’ve never heard before. A Dean’s Garage Exclusive.

October 2, 201734 CommentsGM Design Staff, Stan MottBy Gary Smith

Dave Holls’ Career

From Sketches, Special Edition, April 24, 1991.

February 7, 20158 CommentsCar Design, Dave Holls, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Motor Trend Classic Chuck Jordan Interview

“A car has to make you feel something. If a buyer looks at a car and says, ‘I don’t like it,’ all the other stuff doesn’t matter.”

February 1, 20141 CommentCar Design, Chuck Jordan, Designers, Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, GM Design Staff, MotoramaBy Gary Smith

Exclusive 2006 Interview with Charles M. (Chuck) Jordan

“I consider myself one of the luckiest guys alive. All my life I’ve been able to do the thing I love most—design automobiles.”

July 24, 20126 CommentsChuck Jordan, Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, GM Design Staff, MotoramaBy Gary Smith

85 Year History of GM Design

What we have here is a 2:50 minute video snapshot of the history of GM Design.

June 30, 20122 CommentsGM Design Staff, VideosBy Gary Smith

Harley Earl’s 1951/1954 Le Sabre

Le Sabre—GM’s answer to pre-war Mercedes?

April 12, 20117 CommentsBuick, Car Design, GM BrochuresBy 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

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

Styling The Look of Things

A time warp into a much different world of design than exists today.

August 31, 20102 CommentsBooks, Car Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Detroit Institute of Automobile Styling

It’s 1946 and you’re interested in car design but don’t know where to start.

July 6, 20102 CommentsCar Design, CollegesBy Gary Smith

Sports Cars of the Future by Strother MacMinn

This rare, out-of-print book was loaned to me by Richard Nesbitt.

December 1, 20093 CommentsBooks, Car Design, GM Design Staff, Strother MacMinnBy Gary Smith

Larry Shinoda, Part 1

Shinoda was outspoken, candid, humorous, and firmly believes in what he is doing.

November 17, 20091 CommentCar Design, Corvette, Designers, GM Design Staff, Larry Shinoda, Packard DesignBy Gary Smith

GM and Styling Photos

A random collection of GM related photos with captions, including Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Jack Humbert, Chuck and Mark Jordan, Zora Arkus Duntov, and a few of Design Staff’s styling cars from the ’70s

September 3, 20091 CommentCar Design, GM Design StaffBy Gary Smith

Harley Earl—GM Designer Extraordinaire

MstrEarl.

June 24, 2009Leave a commentVideosBy Gary Smith

Homer LaGassey

According to Bill Porter, Homer, who was assistant in Pontiac at the time, says he quit because of round-the-clock overtime. Claimed his kids cried when he did come home. “Who’s that strange man, mommy?”

June 7, 200932 CommentsDesigners, Homer LaGasseyBy Gary Smith
Dean’s Garage
©2020 Performance Design