In pondering whether Brooks Stevens really wanted to see the world move to rear-engine automobile designs last week, we presented conflicting theories about his work: that he genuinely looked down up...
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...
The Citroen DS had an uphill battle coming into the U.S. market for many reasons we won’t run down here. Suffice it to say, none of those reasons (save for maybe the headlamp issue) had to do with st...
The Citroen DS had an uphill battle coming into the U.S. market for many reasons we won’t run down here. Suffice it to say, none of those reasons (save for maybe the headlamp issue) had to do with st...
Brooks Stevens’s Sceptre concept, designed for Studebaker. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. From its start as a manufacturer of horse-drawn wagons to its demise as an independent automaker compet...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News , courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Jeep aficionados are salivating at the prospect of the upcoming Wrangler-based Scrambler pickup truck, rumore...
Stevens-modified Continental. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Typically, it’s a fool’s errand to compare two or more designers, if not due to the subjectivity of aesthetics, then certainly due t...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...