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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.

3 Comments
Sep162022

Ford’s Mini Max Proposal

Fords Mini Van turned Chrysler.

10 Comments
Sep42022

The 1958 Ford—An Indirect Casualty Of The Edsel

V=SxO once again proven to be true.

17 Comments
Aug272022

Ford Designers Al Mueller and John Orfe

What would 1950s unrestrained creativity be without at least one reactor loader?

5 Comments
Aug22022

Car Designs of the 1937 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild

The story of the 1937 Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, by Ron Will.

14 Comments
Aug12022

Threesome

Harry Bradley’s Sports Rod concept from Street Rodder magazine, September, 2000

7 Comments
Jul202022

Cap’n Stan’s Pencil Saver

New & Improved! Fantabulous! Cheap-O! Easy-To-Use!

5 Comments
Jul102022

Before The Mustang

Ford’s reaction to the success of the 1960 Corvair Monza.

8 Comments
Jun292022

The Continental Mark IV—A Contest Of Wills

Semon “Bunkie” Knudsen versus Lee Iacocca

10 Comments
Jun172022

Stylerama—Ford’s Answer to GM’s Motorama (Almost)

Perhaps it was a good thing that the program was cancelled.

7 Comments
Jun142022

Strother MacMinn’s LeMans Coupe at Eyes on Design

Strother MacMinn’s LeMans Coupe Makes First Public Debut in 60 Years.

14 Comments
Jun22022

Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman

Art Fitzpatrick’s and Van Kaufman’s illustrations inspired us all.

14 Comments
May202022

Influential Designs by Virgil Exner

Chrysler concept cars by Virgil Exner and Virgil Exner Jr.

6 Comments
May182022

Lincolns That Never Were

The ebb and flow of Continental proposals that never saw production.

4 Comments
May62022

Continental Mark II—End Game

Axe the Continental. Full steam on the Edsel.

3 Comments
Apr222022

Henry Ford’s Plastic Car

Henry Ford’s soy bean, lightweight, $400 car. Concrete molds. Didn’t smell so good.

5 Comments
Apr162022

A Re-Think on the Origins of Wedge Car Design

Ray Cannara’s built this wedge design while a student of Strother MacMinn at Art Center School in the ’60s.

11 Comments
Apr62022

A Tale of Two Mercurys—Turnpike Cruiser and the XM-800

That these cars represented an opposite design philosophy from Harley Earl’s show cars from the same era would be an understatement.

5 Comments
Apr12022

Why Cars Are So Bad

Brief summaries of Karl Ludvigsen’s stories on his new website.

1 Comment
Mar272022

Stan Mott’s Autobiography

Stan Mott is gone. He wrote this autobiography in 2019 especially for the Dean’s Garage book.

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