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SIA Flashback – SIA Profile of Brooks Stevens

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Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]

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Tagged Brooks Stevens, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Excalibur J, Howard "Dutch" Darrin, Kaiser, one-offs and homebuilts, packard, replicas, resurrections and kit cars, SIA Flashback  
 

SIA Flashback – Half-Hour History of Gasoline

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As much as the automobile has changed since the days of the horseless carriage, one thing has remained the same – they all run on gasoline. But gasoline today is far different from the gasoline that was used decades ago, as Jerry Heasley wrote in his Half-Hour History of gasoline from SIA #70, August 1982. […]

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Tagged gasoline, oil, refining, SIA Flashback  
 

SIA Flashback – L’Universelle, Front Wheel Drive in ‘55

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Pretty much all we ever see anymore of L’Universelle, the GM concept truck of 1955, is the same color photograph and the same brief one-paragraph description, usually contained within broader articles about GM show cars. We almost never see any in-depth treatment of L’Universelle, establishing the concepts behind it and the parties involved in its […]

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Tagged cab-over engine, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Forward Control, L'Universelle, renderings and concept sketches, SIA Flashback, vans  
 

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