The League of Retired Automotive Designers is an informal group of mostly retired automobile designers whose ability has been honed by years of experience and who still have the creativity, passion, enthusiasm, energy, and ambition to design cars and trucks for the fun of it.
The League created a Vision for Future Ferraris, and displayed their [...]

To have worked in an environment with so many creative designers was an extraordinary experience. For one reason or another sometimes that creativity needed to vent in the form of cartoons. There were several designers that were very gifted at creating fantastic caricatures. These are the cartoons I have in my file, but I’m sure [...]

[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 [...]

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, [...]