The GM Madman Who Built the Stingray in Secret
10/20/202552 min
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Meet Bill Mitchell, the hard-drinking, womanizing, design genius who shaped General Motors’ golden age. From the Corvette Stingray to the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado, Mitchell’s fingerprints are on nearly every iconic GM car of the ’50s through...
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Nolan Sykes· Host1:00
Hey, how you doing? Welcome back to Pass Gas. This week we're talking about a guy named Bill Mitchell, responsible for some of the most iconic designs in General Motors history. A C2 Stingray Corvette, Buick Riviera, Cadillac Seville, you name it, he probably had his hand in it. He is a wild man. He got really drunk at a company party and had to be rescued by the fire department. We'll talk about that. Uh, he was a guy that just, um, you know, he, he was like one of, one of those guys where he, you know, he'd probably say you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, you know?