Wedge Car Design

Acknowledgements: Our thanks to the many people who contributed to this book, especially Ken Gross, Michael Lamb, Raffi Minasian, Stewart Reed and Paul Sable. Ken Gross is an award-winning automotive journalist and has contributed to almost every car magazine you’ve ever enjoyed reading. Following a career in advertising and marketing, he was the Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum and has served as Guest Curator for numerous other prestigious museums around the country., Ken has written fifteen automotive books and has been a Chief Class Judge for 25 years at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and he also serves on their Selection Committee. He’s judged numerous other concours events across the country from Amelia Island to Rodeo Drive. Michael Lamm: Michael Lamm and David Holls’s . A Century of Automotive Style (1996), remains perhaps the most comprehensive and detailed account of the history of American automobile design. Raffi Minasian is a freelance designer working with a wide variety of clients. He holds a BFA from University of California at Los Angeles in Product Design and a BS in Transportation Design from Art Center College. His experience includes aircraft interior design for The Boeing Corporation, toys for Mattel and McDonald’s, consumer products for Microsoft, Polaris, and Rainbird, and car designs for Toyota, Subaru, The Franklin Mint, and Moal Coachbuilders. Over the past twenty years Raffi has designed more than 300 different model cars, and hundreds of consumer products, toys, and home accessories. An award-winning artist and published illustrator, Raffi has taught illustration and design at several noted universities. In 2003 after holding positions as Senior Director and Vice President for major corporations, he returned to his roots as a “hands on” designer working on freelance projects. Today, in addition to his ongoing product design work, Raffi manufactures specialty parts for the classic and muscle car aftermarket as well as custom parts for hot rods and customs. Stewart Reed is the chair of the Transportation Design Department at Art Center, where he oversees the undergraduate and graduate programs. A 1969 graduate of Art Center, Reed has had a distinguished 35-year career in transportation design. Reed has designed and developed more than 30 concept vehicles throughout his career. In 1994, he established Stewart Reed Design and became consultant to the manufacturing industry in automotive and consumer products, with clients including Michelin, Icon Aircraft, Herman Miller, Nissan, Hyundai, Ford and Lockheed Martin. Recently, the Mullin Automotive Museum sought him out for coachwork design of a historically significant Bugatti. Reed maintains activity in design, spanning from GT high-end/performance-luxury to off-road vehicles. He has patents involving lighting, seating, healthcare and automotive innovations. Reed is a judge at numerous concours—including Amelia Island, Pebble Beach and the Louis Vuitton in Paris—and a design jury member at both the Los Angeles and Detroit International Auto Shows. Also, for the past 10 years, he has been chief juror for the Michelin Challenge Design, an international design competition for students and emerging designers . Dr. Paul Sable is a university professor at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He an automotive historian, author, collector and overall car enthusiast. Paul has been a chief judge at nearly every major Concours in the United States. He collects hybrid cars of the 50’s such as Dual Ghia, Hudson Italia, Nash Healey and Facel Vega. He is a Ghia expert and is currently researching homemade cars of the 1950’s and early 60’s. He is part of the founding group of a relatively new Concours in Hershey Pennsylvania – The Elegance at Hershey. Paul is the Honorary Chief Judge at the prestigious Arizona Concours.