SIA Flashback – Beetles Beautiful and Bizarre

In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]

Remembering GM’s Design Chief, Chuck Jordan: 1927-2010

Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, retired General Motors Vice President of Design, has died at age 83. A California native, Chuck Jordan won the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition, and was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He soon joined the GM Styling Staff […]