Always trying harder, little American Motors never ran out of crazy and creative ideas. Here’s one from 1972: the Gremlin Voyager, the car with a drawer. Continue reading
Category Archives: Design
Video: Harley Earl Creates the Buick Y-Job
General Motors produced this video tribute to the company’s first concept car, the Buick Y-Job, and its first vice-president of styling, Harley J. Earl. The creative vision starts here and it continues today. Continue reading
Video: Engineering the 1956 Continental Mark II
From the Ford Motor Company in 1956, Here’s a detailed film history of the creation of the Continental Mark II. Continue reading
Secrets of the Studebaker Wagonaire
By the early 1960s, Studebaker was rapidly fading from the automotive scene, but the car maker continued to offer distinctive and memorable features, including the convertible-roof Wagonaire. Continue reading
Video: Inside the Ford Design Studios, 1964
Here’s a rare look inside the Ford styling studios in the early ’60s with an original company film called Styling and the Experimental Car.
Video: Raymond Loewy, Father of Industrial Design
Meet Raymond Loewy, the pioneering auto stylist and founder of industrial design, in this excellent 1979 video interview. Continue reading
Video: Test-Driving the 1962 Budd XR-400 Concept
Join Matt Anderson, curator of transportation at the Henry Ford, for a road test of the museum’s one-of-a-kind Budd XR400 prototype. Continue reading