I have in front of me a superb Michael Furman photograph of a 1961 Chevrolet Mako Shark concept. There can be no better example of GM design capo Bill Mitchell’s aesthetic wherein he explained that a baseball will always be more interesting than a billiard ball because of its varied textures and details.
The knife-sharp hipline establishes a contrast between light falling on the upper and lower parts of the astonishing silver body. Four decadently chromed exhaust downpipes gather into a striated