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Mar32023

Ford’s First Automatic Transmission

What could possibly go wrong?

5 Comments
Feb242023

Guindon’s Detroit

An ’80s collection of Guindon’s cartoons from the Detroit Free Press.

5 Comments
Feb172023

Growing Up in a Car Guy Family

Stories by Bruce Troxell

5 Comments
Feb102023

A Tribute to Genius—Soviet Aircraft Designer Igor Sokerov

All the world is familiar with Igor Sokerov’s more famous aircraft—the ones that flew. By Stan Mott.

7 Comments
Feb32023

Corvair Spyder GT?

What is a Corvair Spyder GT?

12 Comments
Jan272023

Brooks Stevens‘s radical plan to save Studebaker

Brooks Stevens believed he could turn Studebaker around.

10 Comments
Jan202023

Harry Bradley’s Corvettes from Corvette News, 09/82

Three of Harry Bradley’s future Corvette illustrations.

4 Comments
Jan132023

Hideo Kodama Rendering Seminar

Published in Car Styling, Issue 6, April 1974.

7 Comments
Jan62023

Ford’s Contribution to Chrysler’s Turbine Car

The Chrysler Turbine Car’s design was heavily influenced by ex-Ford designers.

5 Comments
Dec292022

The Lincoln XL-500 (Phantom)

Possibly the only show car that ever destroyed a restaurant.

4 Comments
Dec232022

King Kong Cub

Exclusive, Mindboggling, Scaled-up Giant J-3 by Robert Cumberford and Stan Mott

9 Comments
Dec162022

Ford’s X-100 (aka Continental 195X)

The X-100 is easily Ford’s most important concept car—and it was distinctly a Ford product.

4 Comments
Dec92022

John Gable—GM Designer and Fine Artist

Featured Designer and Artist, John (Jack) Gable

7 Comments
Dec22022

The Ford Mexico

Alex Tremulis told Mr. Ford he needed a zero-lift car to fix the T-bird lift problem.

3 Comments
Nov252022

NDI-Nissan Design International

The story of NDI published in Car Styling, September 1989.

1 Comment
Nov182022

Alex Tremulis, Fortune Teller

The Story of Alex Tremulis and Ford’s Gyron.

6 Comments
Nov112022

The Surveyor—Mitchell’s Ultimate Bike Racer Van

Bill Mitchell’s custom bike hauler.

6 Comments
Nov42022

The American Station Wagon

By Harry Bradley

7 Comments
Oct282022

The Blue Job—Buzz Grisinger’s Test

Designer Buzz Grisinger—From Atomic Bombs to Mercury Styling.

4 Comments
Oct212022

Bill Mitchell’s Super Bikes

Bill Mitchell’s Harley Davidson Stingray and Ducati 750SF featured in Car Styling, 1975

3 Comments
Oct142022

Strother MacMinn, A Man of Wit and Genius

A very interesting interview with Strother MacMinn published in Car Styling No. 56, Autumn, 1986.

9 Comments
Oct72022

Ron Will’s Phantom Restored!

Ron Will’s Turbo Phantom Restoration Saga.

20 Comments
Sep302022

Car Craft’s Dream Roadster

Artwork by Bob Hubbach, published in Car Craft Magazine, 1961.

8 Comments
Sep232022

Ford Unitron

Abandoned efforts: Ford’s 1961 Unitron RV/Mobile Office and Ford’s 5th Wheel, T-Bird-towed Trailer.

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  • Gary, Just received your book and read part of it, and can’t wait to finish it! EXCELLENT BOOK WOW! Thanks!

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  • It’s a book whose pages you’ll return to again and again…sometimes just to look, other times to read and learn and to laugh!

    Helen Hutchings
  • It brought back so many memories. The book captures some of the antics that took place. I recommend Gary’s book for anyone that has an interest to get a glimpse of an era long gone.

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  • Very impressed with the emphasis on the “people stories.” Most people think of GM in terms of the cars, whereas you focused on the designers that created the cars. Congratulations on your excellent and personable narrative.

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  • All the wonderful anecdotes and photos bring laughter and smiles of recollection of the years at GM Design. The other content is equally entertaining, too! One can keep returning to its pages, finding a new topic of interest each time.

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  • The book is providing lots of interesting reading along with so many great photos, illustrations and renderings.

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  • Reading the stories and anecdotes of designers who shared their experiences in this book allowed me to vicariously imagine what it would have actually been like to have worked in a studio. Thumbs Up Gary!!

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  • I’ve enjoyed the Dean’s Garage book. I know a lot of the designers and places you mention; it’s like a reunion or old-home week.Thank you very much for putting everything together in such a beautifully organized, fun, illuminating way.

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