Few who knew Bill Mitchell are likely to forget him. ... Soon their racing clubhouse was decorated with Mitchell's race-car sketches and drawings. When a Detroit industrialist saw them there, ...

Read about it and the Bill Mitchell era right here! News. Reviews. Buyer's Guide ... the studio was approximately 40 by 15 feet with room for one platform for a car and two drawing tables, ...

The name is scripted both ways on Mitchell’s race car, which now spends most of its time at the restored Mechanical Assembly garage at the Tech Center, odometer stuck at 4,999 miles. There’s ...

Bill Mitchell had a personality as strong as his design ... Still drawing cars, Mitchell befriended Sam, ... Mitchell raced the car for two years and won a championship with no external marking ...

The 1959 Stingray race car that evolved into a roadgoing concept was developed despite a ban on racing and General ... and Bill Mitchell, ... they took it from sketches to a one-fifth ...

Ross had a hand in the final design of the Series 62, working alongside Bill Mitchell. Of course, Ross went on to help design many iconic classic Cadillacs and Buicks.

Chevy stylist Jerry Palmer drew the initial sketches that caught Mitchell's eye around 1970. "We were looking at how to freshen up the Camaro. I did a four-by-two-foot sketch early on with a [1958 ...

1964 brought mild refinement to the Chevy Corvette. This Bill Mitchell Corvette coupe styling car will soon cross the Mecum Auctions block in Kissimmee.

Born on July 2, 1912, in Greenville, Pennsylvania, as a kid Bill was always drawing cars. His father sent him to Carnegie Tech to learn to draw something besides cars, but it didn’t work.

Bill Mitchell took over from Harley Earl as head of General Motors' design department at the turn of the 1960s. One of his first major projects was the second-generation Corvette, which launched ...