Renderings by Geza Loczi and Charley Gatewood
Grand AM Development from How Stuff Works
The 1973 Pontiac Grand Am started out in the development stages as a GTO. But the muscle era was drawing to a close and, very much aware of that, Pontiac decided to change the car’s character. Instead of continuing to make the GTO [...]
Larry Shinoda—Car Enthusiast, Student at Art Center. His first time at Ford, then Packard, and then GM Styling.
His time at Ford, White Motors, and as an independent designer will be featured in Part 2.
More information about the Monza GT, including the brochure, is under the GM Brochures link.
Text, images and captions on this post come [...]
A random collection of GM related photos with captions, including Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Jack Humbert, Chuck and Mark Jordan, Zora Arkus Duntov, and a few of Design Staff’s styling cars from the ’70s.
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 [...]
General Motors created many specialized brochures. Featured in this post is a 8.5″ square, 8-page grayscale brochure of GM Design Staff from the early 1960s. The photos are captioned, but if others know of the names of other people in the photos that I don’t recognize, let me know and I will update this post.
