Concept Car
Object Details
- Designer
- Glen Winterscheidt, American, 1929 – 2020
- Office of
- General Motors, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Description
- Design for a red automobile with chrome accents shown in three-quarter frontal view. Curvilinear bulging body with round projecting headlights at the front above a rounded rectangular metal grill. Silver hubcaps at each of the tires, a chrome accent bordering each of the wheel wells. Behind the front left tire, decorative chrome element pointing towards the front of the car and continuing to the car's rear. Red dagmars extend beyond the rear tire, a large red fin with chrome underside above.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Paul Herzan and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- ca. 1957
- Accession Number
- 2017-18-20
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- transportation
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Airbrush and ink on illustration board
- Dimensions
- 24.1 × 52.1 cm (9 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Michigan, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2017-18-20
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bdeb09a4-68ee-4153-8d29-1445eda724e6
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