Ken Pickering, GM's retired Executive Director, Engineering and Design Services, joins Digging Detroit's Kevin Walsh and Pete Kalinski to discuss his career in the exciting years of design in the 1950s and beyond.
- Moving from western Pennsylvania to WWII to GM
- Hard work combined with some great breaks
- Harley Earl & Bill Mitchell
- How long a car takes from design to production
- Women in design via Harley Earl
- The Corvette SR2 created in 5 weeks for Earl’s son
- Henry Ford, Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy
- Motorama—Harley Earl’s Manhattan Runway
- Man’s love-affair with cars
- David Temple's new book Motorama: GM's Legendary Show & Concept Cars
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