Chrysler Imperial Concept Car Art by Chuck Mashigan Important Auto Stylist at Ford Chrysler & AMC Start Price USD 350.00 Current Price USD 828.00 Time Left - Bid Count 4 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 10, 2008 End Time Monday, October 13, 2008 Location Southfield, MI See more about 'Chrysler Imperial Concept Car Art by Chuck Mashigan' Description Charles “Chuck” Mashigan Concept Car Drawing for Chrysler Imperial c.1961-62 Unique and Original…One-of-a Kind   This is something you don’t come across every day; an original, signed Chuck Mashigan concept car! It’s a beauty! Fanciful, exotic, dramatic.   Chuck Mashigan was a first-rate auto stylist who started with Ford in the 1950s. He was a principal figure in the design of the original Thunderbird and its second-generation spawn. It is also rumored that Mashigan had a hand in designing the futuristic personal transportation system vehicle known as the Levacar.   Elwood Engle was head of design at Lincoln when Chrysler hired him away from Ford to replace their master designer, Virgil Exner. Chuck Mashigan moved to Chrysler with Engle. Almost immediately, Mashigan’s design for a concept car called the Typhoon was a big hit at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and that design was the basis for his Chrysler Turbine.   Mashigan left for AMC in the mid-1960s, where he worked under Dick Teague as Advanced Studio Manager. There, he headed and controlled the design teams that produced the Rambler Tarpon pre-muscle car (reincarnated as the Marlin), the AMX, and its big brother, the Javelin, the Matador and that cute little car from Mars, the Pacer. He was also head of the Jeep Design Studio in the 1970s, and designed the first Jeep Wrangler.   Chuck Mashigan died just a few years ago, after a long and interesting career in the auto universe.   The Imperial concept drawing I am offering seems to be from his earliest days at Chrysler, in part because of the assymetrical accent bump on the hood…a design trick from 1961-63, as any old-time car model builder will recognize. Two jet planes swoop in from the upper left, as if to signal the “jet-age” styling. It is signed “Mashigan” in the lower right corner.   It is a pastel and colored-pencil rendering, heavily coated with a fixative spray (Lacquer? Varnish?). The drawing is about 19” square, stuffed into an anodized-gold, extruded-aluminum frame, measuring 22-1/2” square.   The artwork was executed on a sheet of single thick illustration board from Lewis Artist Supply in Detroit (one of my old favorite hang-outs). The composite layers of the board have partially separated with age. You can see the wavy surface in the photos. Not to worry; this type of board was actually intended to be separated in layers for trick assembly work and wholesale “patch” assembly of illustrations.   Though the image is nearly separated from its backing, the art surface is solid, intact and strong. The colors are fresh and unfaded. A very simple task to have the art surface re-mounted on a new backing board…or not.   A beautiful, unique rendering of a car that never was from a man whose personal approach to concept cars certainly made the world of auto design a very interesting place. TOO COOL!   I sell and ship worldwide for an appropriate price. Place a Bid!