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 […]

“As close to a production car as a VW kit car gets” is how the Bremen Sport Sebring is usually described, being the output of Al Hildebrand, a distributor of the Sterling kit car, who decided he could build it better and did. Most sources say that Hildebrand built something like 1,500 Sebrings starting in […]

In the late 1960s, Don Helmrich, his brother Ed and their father Henry took note of the rise of the fiberglass-bodied dune buggy and decided to try their own hand at building a fiberglass body to fit on a Volkswagen tub. But instead of designing yet another Meyers knockoff, they went in a different direction.
“My […]