Comments on: Larry Shinoda, Part 2 http://deansgarage.com/2009/larry-shinoda-part-2/ Yesterday’s Look at Tomorrow Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bryce Patrick http://deansgarage.com/2009/larry-shinoda-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Bryce Patrick Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:06:12 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=2155#comment-542 I purchased a1990 Shinoda Design Tripple black Convertible in 1993 with 27000 miles. I met Larry in Dallas at the Dallas Club's show. Larry was their guest speaker. At the awards he gave me his personal pic out of 258 Vettes. We stayed in contact from then until about three months before he died. He was waiting for a transplant but didn't make it. I have a picure of him giving me the award. He sent me his design for the 97 vette before it was published.--of course it wasn't used by GM. I'm 82 years old and still drive my Shinoda Design--it now has 154000 miles and still runs great.--Larry was one of the nicest guys I ever met. When we were young we drag raced at Caddo Mills - but at the time didn't know each other personally. Thanks--Bryce Patrick I purchased a1990 Shinoda Design Tripple black Convertible in 1993 with 27000 miles. I met Larry in Dallas at the Dallas Club’s show. Larry was their guest speaker. At the awards he gave me his personal pic out of 258 Vettes. We stayed in contact from then until about three months before he died. He was waiting for a transplant but didn’t make it. I have a picure of him giving me the award. He sent me his design for the 97 vette before it was published.–of course it wasn’t used by GM. I’m 82 years old and still drive my Shinoda Design–it now has 154000 miles and still runs great.–Larry was one of the nicest guys I ever met. When we were young we drag raced at Caddo Mills – but at the time didn’t know each other personally. Thanks–Bryce Patrick

]]> By: Ron Will http://deansgarage.com/2009/larry-shinoda-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Ron Will Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:21 +0000 http://deansgarage.com/?p=2155#comment-336 I worked in the Corvette studio just after Larry's departure over to Ford. There were lots of Shinoda sketches back in the flat files. I wish I had snatched one or two of them. The modelers loved Larry's sketches because he always drew the section lines on the design to make it easy to see the forms of the car. I adopted Larry's style when I was working with the modelers. It made me think more carefully about the actual shapes. You couldn't cheat the design with fake reflections as some designers like to do. Larry came back to GM Styling one day in grand style. He brought over one of the Ford performance show cars, pulled into the underground executive garage and rev ved the engine several times to wake up the designers in the building. About half the designers in the building came down to see what was up. The executives were furious that Larry had parked in their garage, but that was Larry's style. He was brazen and would tell you in very colorful language exactly what he felt about a design or designer using his well developed list of four letter words. Later when I worked for Subaru Design, I contracted with Shinoda Design for concept ideas. Larry came up with about 50 sketches of a Legacy coupe than never made it to production. But, Larry was quite famous and all the Japanese Subaru designers wanted to get their picture taken with him. Larry was quite a story teller and I loved to sit in a bar with him as he rolled out some of the backroom stories of how some designs came to be. He was a bigger than life person and designer. I worked in the Corvette studio just after Larry’s departure over to Ford. There were lots of Shinoda sketches back in the flat files. I wish I had snatched one or two of them. The modelers loved Larry’s sketches because he always drew the section lines on the design to make it easy to see the forms of the car. I adopted Larry’s style when I was working with the modelers. It made me think more carefully about the actual shapes. You couldn’t cheat the design with fake reflections as some designers like to do.

Larry came back to GM Styling one day in grand style. He brought over one of the Ford performance show cars, pulled into the underground executive garage and rev ved the engine several times to wake up the designers in the building. About half the designers in the building came down to see what was up. The executives were furious that Larry had parked in their garage, but that was Larry’s style. He was brazen and would tell you in very colorful language exactly what he felt about a design or designer using his well developed list of four letter words.

Later when I worked for Subaru Design, I contracted with Shinoda Design for concept ideas. Larry came up with about 50 sketches of a Legacy coupe than never made it to production. But, Larry was quite famous and all the Japanese Subaru designers wanted to get their picture taken with him. Larry was quite a story teller and I loved to sit in a bar with him as he rolled out some of the backroom stories of how some designs came to be. He was a bigger than life person and designer.

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