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  1. of2worlds

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    Wonderful design details on the Silver Arrow I here; thank you!

    Two tone paint is difficult to see on this Riviera. With silver outside and silver inside to that color combination was also later used on the famous '59 Corvette Sting Ray racer. GM also used silver with a silver interior as well for the 1965 Corvette coupe prototype.
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    Mr. Mitchell had a 'thing' about silver cars ;)
    which ain't a bad thing
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    Silver/silver on the '59 would have predated the Silver Arrow in '63.

    Silver on silver was used on others. I remember a Trans Am that Jordan had done that way.

    Mitchell's 1977 Caprice coupe had the different shades of silver to accentuate the surface changes.

    Silver exteriors are a favorite of Design for the exteriors. It highlights the surface changes the best.
     
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    That is interesting about the use of silver especially from John's pictures as well.

    I wasn't sure when the silver paint was used. The '59 was red in the 1967 movie Clambake but silver in 1963...
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    gotta love Elvis' suit :D
    and I thought Mitchell was 'colorful'
     
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    you dont like Castriota's Hyperion or the guys photoshop ? just checking :)


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    I'm sure, the Photoshop.
     
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    this is the one that scared me :eek:
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    interesting; though it wasn't always about 'silver'. Note the Chevrolet Corvette jacket patch!
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    very unusual way to enter a car. left leg first?
     
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    more of a pose I think just like in this studio image>
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    pond side picture looks odd. its just not that obvious. small detail that they got wrong.
    studio pic looks correct and natural.
     
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    humorous anecdote, W.L. Mitchell visited my class at Art Center in the mid '70's.
    As he was wont to do, he showed up in white, head to toe. G. Giugiaro was also visiting at the same time, but was dressed in the 'cool Italian' look of the time. Mr. Giugiaro's expression when he saw Mitchell was priceless.
    Two giants of vehicle design from totally different planets.


    And here he is with 'Blue Boy'
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    has any american ever headed up an important italian design project?
     
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    Tom Tjaarda
    Ken Okuyama
    Jason Castriota
    Peter Davis
    Michael Robinson
    Just off the top of my head, there are probably several others
     
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    Yup, looks like that could have been the 'inspiration' ;)
     
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    Cool, Al Flower's sketch.
    I think for a Firebird, but not certain.
     
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    This white Corvette featured an early design for a urethane rubber 'endura' front bumper. While described as a 1965 Corvette it actually started as an early 1963 Corvette prototype. It features fuel injection and the 2 bar knock off style wheels. It was not until 1973 that the Corvette finally changed the chrome bumper design to the endura style. The Pontiac GTO design for 1968 introduced the endura bumper.
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    Yes, we were just talking about that the other day. Today almost all cars have body colored bumpers, thanks to the '68 GTO
     
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    Woodward and GTO made for each other...
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