{"id":14511,"date":"2024-07-07T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/we-found-who-designed-those-big-cadillac-fins\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T10:02:52","slug":"we-found-who-designed-those-big-cadillac-fins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/we-found-who-designed-those-big-cadillac-fins\/","title":{"rendered":"We Found Who Designed Those Big Cadillac Fins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Holls was a car designer for GM from the 1950s to the 1990s. He designed Cadillacs, Corvettes, Buicks, and <!--more--> Opels. Recorded in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; Childhood in Detroit<br \/>\n2:02 &#8211; Michigan State to General Motors<br \/>\n2:30 &#8211; First Job Cadillac Studio<br \/>\n3:08 &#8211; 1953 Cadillac Eldorado<br \/>\n3:56 &#8211; Harley Earl<br \/>\n5:00 &#8211; Army in Germany<br \/>\n5:39 &#8211; 1955 GM Design Tech Center<br \/>\n6:47 &#8211; 1959 Cadillac with Big Fins<br \/>\n7:30 &#8211; Design Philosophy and Bill Mitchell<br \/>\n9:56 &#8211; Origins of Automobile Design<br \/>\n12:04 &#8211; 1960 Cadillac, Buick Riviera, Corvette and Camaro<br \/>\n12:47 &#8211; Clay Modelers, Engineers, and Design Team<br \/>\n13:53 &#8211; Engineer Pete Estes<br \/>\n15:08 &#8211; Chief Designer Chevrolet<br \/>\n15:52 &#8211; Opel in Germany<br \/>\n17:27 &#8211; Opel Manta, Commodore, Senator, Diplomat, and Bitter<br \/>\n20:53 &#8211; Bill Mitchell&#8217;s Art &amp; History<br \/>\n26:11 &#8211; Special Car Designs at GM<br \/>\n27:35 &#8211; 1963 Corvette Stingray<br \/>\n30:50 &#8211; Buick Riviera<br \/>\n31:55 &#8211; GM Divisions<br \/>\n33:54 &#8211; Selling a design to Bill Mitchell<br \/>\n34:10 &#8211; Humor of Bill Mitchell<br \/>\n36:40 &#8211; Young Designers at GM<br \/>\n40:30 &#8211; Running GM Advanced Studios<br \/>\n41:40 &#8211; Body Shape and Wind Tunnel<br \/>\n43:52 &#8211; GM Director of Design<br \/>\n44:13 &#8211; Writing the History of Automobile Design<br \/>\n47:10 &#8211; Automobile Safety and Design<br \/>\n47:53 &#8211; Back to Styling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Holls was a car designer for GM from the 1950s to the 1990s. He designed Cadillacs, Corvettes, Buicks, and\n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/we-found-who-designed-those-big-cadillac-fins\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}