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
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- Women in design via Harley Earl
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- Man’s love-affair with cars
- David Temple's new book Motorama: GM's Legendary Show & Concept Cars
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