Featuring Cyclops, the Bongo family, and quite a number of other oddities. By Stan Mott. Published in Road & Track, June, 1978. Reprinted by permission. Start at the first panel in the gallery. Stan Mott behind the wheel of the Cyclops. The original Smart Car. Build your own Cyclops II.

It’s 1946 and you’re interested in car design but don’t know where to start. Back in Detroit Harley Earl is looking for car designers. Design schools are starting to ramp up, but in the mean time how do you prepare to be a car designer? And how does Harley Earl find you? Would you consider [...]

Click on the photo to the left to open an Acrobat (.pdf) file of an interview with Bob Gurr scanned from Collectable Automobile, October, 1998. It’s great reading and offers a candid appraisal of what it was like working as a designer for Ford in the early ’50s under George Walker. Read about his great [...]

Stan Mott kept us going with his outrageous cartoons and great artwork. I’m appreciative of being able to post some of his artwork on Dean’s Garage from time to time. So that we don’t take life too seriously. From Dark Roasted Blend: It’s hard to summarize Stan Mott’s interests in a few words. The man [...]

R. Henry Gurr’s book played an important role in my interest in car design. After seeing GM’s show car display in the infield at a USRRC road race at the Riverside International Raceway in 1964 (which included the Monza GT), I had a letter on its way to GM Design Staff the next morning inquiring [...]