Dave’s Self-Driving Car
A possibly prophetic near-future dialog between a customer and Buick Customer Service. By Gary Smith.
What a Car Designer Drives
Great car. Cool video.
Camaro 2016
Book review. This is how they do cars at GM Design these days.
2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road America
Ford, BMW, Porsche, Corvette, and Ferrari mix it up. The last six minutes.
Larry Brinker, Sculptor
Larry is a tremendous sculpturing and design talent. He has been a good friend over the years, and it gives me a lot of pleasure to present this brief overview of is professional career.
Airstream, America’s World Traveler
The story of Wally Byam’s trailer.
The Great Airstream Office Debacle
Just because I can dream something up doesn’t mean that I should try it.
Gentlemen, Light Your Tires
Last hurrah for the 3.8 Turbo Buick V6.
1967 Can-Am at Road America (Elkhart Lake)
When that many Can-Am cars rolled by on the pace lap, the ground shook.
GM’s Far-Out ’59s
A few pages from Special Interest Autos #125, September/October 1991 and other stuff.
How GM‘s Radical 1959 Chevrolet Came to Be
No, Bruce McCall didn’t design these.
Wide Open Muscle
The rarest of the rare. New book review.
1986 Buick LaSabre
Inside Buick magazine interviews Bill Porter on the design of the 1986 Buick LeSabre.
1967 Times Grand Prix at RIR
Where Bruce McLaren and Jim Hall put on quite a show. I was there.
More Studio Art, George Barbaz
All sorts of cool renderings and photos found online.
American Muscle Cars—A Full-Throttle History
Not just another book of shiny car photos.
Cyclops Royale
Personally approved by Ettore himself.
Change by Design—Ford Designers
Ford Design in 1973 as they grapple with government mandated safety guidelines. Homer LaGassey is featured in two scenes
1964 Road America 500
Cool video. Driver interviews. Racing action. And a trip around Road America in a Corvette light weight (Grand Sport) driven and narrated by Roger Penske.
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.
1917 Ford Plant Postcards
A fascinating set of color postcards from 1917 showing Model T production.
Cars and Cameras
Uncle Harry used to give me his hand-me-down 8mm and Super 8 movie cameras.
Corvette News, 1958–1966
Only Corvette owners could get Corvette News and I didn’t own a Corvette, or know anybody that had one.
Joe Oros, Ford Designer
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. Larry Wood of Mattel sent me a treasure trove of slides from the late ’40s in an ancient brown metal box with a built-in slide viewer.