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Glenmoor Gathering to celebrate the cars of Dutch Darrin

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1940 Packard Darrin. Photograph courtesy Glenmoor Gathering. The annual Glenmoor Gathering in Canton, Ohio, has a longstanding tradition of featuring the cars attributed to a famed automotive designer every year, and for 2011, that tradition continues with the cars of Howard “Dutch” Darrin. For such an exalted automotive designer, Darrin seemed to have entered the […]

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Tagged coachbuilt cars, concours d'elegance, fiberglass cars, Glenmoor Gathering, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Daily, Howard "Dutch" Darrin, Kaiser Darrin, personalities  
 

Lost and Found overflow – Darrin’s Illian and GM proposals

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In the Lost and Found section in the issue of Hemmings Classic Car that should be landing in subscribers’ hands shortly (#74), I included a photo from Guy Cassaday of the full-size prototype of the car that Dutch Darrin designed for Israel-based Illian, a company that previously assembled Kaiser-Frazers there. I also noted that the […]

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Tagged Buick Skylark, dream cars, show cars and prototypes, Howard "Dutch" Darrin, Illian, Lost and Found, Pontiac Tempest  
 

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  
 
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