Chuck Jordan was a GM automobile designer from 1949 to 1992. This interview was recorded in 1997 and is full of General Motors automotive history.<\/p>\n
0:00 – Chuck Jordan’s childhood
\n0:50 – MIT Engineering & Fisher Body Competition
\n2:00 – Starting at General Motors in 1949
\n3:53 – Drawing 1933 Chevy’s
\n4:56 – GM Finding Designers
\n5:45 – Junior Designer
\n6:24 – Harley Earl
\n11:12 – Bill Mitchell
\n14:58 – Chrysler Story & 1959 Designs
\n19:26 – Virgil Exner’s Forward Look
\n21:49 – Spying on the Competition
\n22:25 – Bill Mitchell Designer and Leader
\n24:48 – GM Design Studios
\n26:29 – Bill Mitchell vs Harley Earl
\n27:49 – 1963 Corvette Stingray
\n30:53 – Remembering Bill Mitchell
\n31:55 – Buick Riviera
\n34:16 – Dave Holls
\n37:57 – Opel and Europe
\n42:36 – Back to GM and Irv Rybicki
\n45:50 – Hard Times and Regulations
\n48:30 – 1980s
\n50:00 – Becoming VP of GM Design
\n54:28 – Cadillac STS & Oldsmobile Aurora
\n1:00:10 – Advanced Design Studios
\n1:01:04 – George Barris
\n1:03:53 – Trucks Tractors Trains
\n1:05:20 – Impact of the Ford Taurus
\n1:08:23 – 1990s
\n1:09:20 – Chevy Caprice
\n1:10:42 – Pontiac Trans Sport
\n1:12:46 – Mentors
\n1:14:08 – Favorite Designs
\n1:15:05 – Ferrari
\n1:18:58 – Chuck Jordan’s Design Philosophy
\n1:21:00 – 1956 Continental Mark II
\n1:22:09 – Young Designers
\n1:23:40 – Legacy
\n1:24:34 – Documentary<\/p>\n
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