Buick Camel GT Car
For you performance Buick enthusiasts, sketches and photos of the Buick Camel GT car (Morgan Performance Argo JM16 GTP) campaigned by the Morgan Performance Group in 1985–86. Racing photos courtesy of Racing Sports Cars. My involvement was limited to a sketch of a paint scheme. I don’t know why the rendering shows [...]
Everybody has lots of posters. These perhaps are a bit unusual and of interest to the readers of Dean’s Garage.
Print of artwork by Tom Okuyama. There is a studio photo of the design being worked out in scale and full-size clay models on a post entitled GM Design Photos from the Early ’90s, Part 3.
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1975 Buick Century Pace Car Sketch
In looking for some other artwork I ran across a sketch for the 1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car. There are several posts on Dean’s Garage devoted to Buick Pace Cars.
I ended up with a box of slides from a major Buick-Oldsmobile show previewing the 1977 Buick and Oldsmobile models. The show included Riveria and Toronado models that never saw the light of day. Also in the gallery are shots of Olds and Buick J-coupes that were never produced. The show probably took place in [...]
The Buick Skylark 80X was the second major promotional car I did for Buick as Performance Design.
Performance Design (see The Early History of the Buick Grand National and Performance Design) was created as an assumed name for freelance activities with Herb Fishel and Buick’s promotional efforts in the late ’70s. The 80X was featured in [...]
High Drag
I did work on the ’83 Riviera Indy Pace Car, but my contribution was minimal. They seemed to know what they wanted; I just helped execute someone else’s design. The “Great Gatsby” beige and cream Riviera didn’t do anything for me. On the other hand, there was nothing that could possibly be done to [...]
The first Buick Promotional Car
Buick, Olds, Chevrolet, and Pontiac studios competed for designs for the 1979 GM A-bodies. There were two coupe and two sedan uppers to be shared, a notchback and a fastback. Since Buick and Olds traditionally catered to more traditional buyers, it would be appropriate for those divisions to have the notchbacks. [...]
My Dad’s Century Turbo Coupe
The cars I remember my dad having included a Seafoam Green ’51 Ford 2-door, a red and white ’55 Chevy 2-door Del Ray, a gold ’62 Chevy Impala 4-door hardtop, and a tan ’68 Buick Skylark 2-door coupe. I was working at GM Design Staff, and dad expressed an interest in [...]
