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Chrysler Vice President of Design. Virgil Max "Ex" Exner Sr. (September 24, 1909 – December 22, 1973) was an automobile designer for several American automobile companies, most notably Chrysler and Studebaker . Exner is widely known for the "Forward Look" he created for the 1955–1963 Chrysler products and his fondness of tailfins on cars ...
Oct 21, 2007 · Exner became an executive stylist — the youngest person ever to hold that position at G.M. — designing the handsome Pontiacs of 1937-38. But working on Studebaker designs at Loewy’s design...
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Nov 22, 2023 · His best designs were arguably a handful of 1950s Chrysler show cars but his most influential work didn’t come until later. At the top of the list may well be a 1966 Duesenberg prototype, which inspired the 1968 Lincoln Continental Mark III, according to Exner biographer Peter Grist ( 2007 ).
Aug 11, 2022 · (first posted 5/24/2012) Virgil Exner is most often associated with the era of sweeping fins and other spacey design affectations during his tenure at Chrysler. But his most influential and enduring work was in ushering the whole neo-classic/brougham design era, and it all started with this 1963 drawing for a magazine.
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Exner headed the Advanced Design Studio where he successfully advocated for designers, not engineers, to create the car designs. Exner’s first production cars for Chrysler, the 1955 "Forward Look" line, were the Imperial and the first Chrysler 300.
Revolutionized automotive design in 1955 with the “Forward Look” line of automobiles at Chrysler, where he later served as Vice President of styling. Virgil Exner gave a new shape to motion with innovative designs that made many American cars of the 1950s true “dream machines.”
Nov 20, 2019 · Metalshaper Wray Schelin says he can teach an absolute beginner in metalshaping how to form a car fender in just a week, and he's decided to back that claim up by assigning his metalshaping students to create a super-slick Virgil Exner-penned car body design that the world has never seen in sheetmet...
