Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special from the 1950s. The Photo courtesy Virgil Exner Jr. More than 60 years ago, a young Virgil Exner Jr. not only followed in his father’s footsteps by designing his own ...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Museum of Art. After all the talk of streamlined rear-engine cars in America during the Thirties – all the renderings and sketches and homebuilt prototypes and Stout Scarabs...
Since FCA introduced the Hellcat performance trim for the long-lived third-generation Hemi–and especially since it introduced the crate version a couple years back–bench racers have envisioned droppi...
First reported by Autoline’s John McElroy on Facebook, Futurist Syd Mead passed away this morning in his Pasadena, California home. He was 86 years old. Famous for his futuristic renderings seen in m...
Well, what do I know—I am a fine artist but not a car designer. But as a historian with 18 car histories under my belt I admire certain car designers throughout history and for a lot of them, part of...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
Corvette rendering by Sparky Bohnstedt, circa 1954. Images courtesy Robert Edwards unless noted otherwise. Of course every car designer longs to tackle something like the Corvette: a prestige car, sl...