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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.
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 [...]
[Click here to see a gallery of images of the Pace Car garage and the Buick group from Flint on the first day of qualifying.]
The 1981 Buick Regal Indy Pace Car graphics originated as one of a variety of assignments for special promotional vehicle illustrations that Herb Fishel had me do freelancing under the [...]
1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car Graphics
I worked on four Indy Pace car paint schemes, all Buicks. The first one was a 1975 Buick Century with the last year of the old couple A-body design. I don’t remember anyone dictating or suggesting the flag graphics on the body side. The body design itself seemed to [...]
Performance Design History
This particular Grand National has a junkyard dog menacing look about it.
Herb Fishel worked under Vince Piggins at Chevrolet’s performance group. In the late ’70s, Lloyd Reuss and Buick Motor Division lured him away to start their own performance department. Herb would make frequent trips from Flint to the GM Tech Center at Warren, Michigan, [...]
