All of the photos in this post are from Ron Will.
Comment from Ron: If anyone has a guild model or old Guild photos, I would appreciate receiving a copy by mail or by email. We are building an archive of this historic Fisher Body model contest. A CD copy of our archive to date [...]
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing GM’s futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire’s “Kitchen of the Future.” This surreal video is pretty much completely over the top. From Archive.org. Length: 09:06
Many important things happened in the 1960s. Those historical events paled in significance compared to getting a driver’s license (on my 16th birthday—on the very day). By the time the decade was over, I was on my third car, had started Art Center, and had been awarded a get-out-of-jail-free card by the Selective Service System. [...]
General Motor’s Model Car Styling Contest
My dad took me to an auto show in Los Angeles in 1959. I don’t remember if it was a Motorama or not, but on display were several Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild models. I took the literature and about wore it out looking through it for years before finally deciding [...]
A short movie about streamlining.
To hear the term “Torpedo Car” is worth watching the video. Sponsored by Chevrolet Motor Division. From Archive.org. Length: 06:47.
I remember when the new GM Wind Tunnel was first being utilized. When suggestions were made to Bill Mitchell about changes that could be made to the cars to improve [...]
This image was on a yearly Corvette desk calendar. It is identified as a Corvette XP-856, but I’ve never seen it before. Does anybody know what this is?
A rare brochure showing the development of the Aerovette. It was first known as the Four-Rotor Corvette because it was designed to have a four-rotor rotary engine. Because of emissions and fuel economy issues, GM scrapped the rotary engine, and they replaced with a 350 V8 in the Aerovette. It was also known as the [...]
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic. From Archive.org. Length 03:29.
