109 Book: The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild Author: John L. Jacobus; Published 2005 Background The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild was a national auto design competition sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. This competition was for teenagers to complete for college scholarships by designing and building scale model “dream” cars. Held from the 1930s through the 1960s, it helped identify and nurture a whole generation of designers and design executives. Richard Arbib won a first place state award in 1937 in the Senior Division in New York at 19 years old and was discussed in this book along with his Monte Carlo project. Excerpt From Book “One of his projects was to restyle Packard cars for the Henney Motor Company, a maker of hearses and ambulances. Henney had had an exclusive contract with Packard since 1939 to be its body builder. The late 1940s and early 1950s are what Arbib called the “bath tub era,” and the manufacturers, except for Studebaker, were trying to “out-round” each other. He came up with the 1949 Packard hard-top style Monte Carlo coupe with big, round, bulbous curves. Early in the 1950s Arbib came up with new car designs such as the V-Line Custom Sedan, the Full-Vision Coupe De Ville and the Turbo Charged Coupe for the Veedol Motor Oil Dream Car Salon.”
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