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By the time Mitchell returned, the design for the 1948 Cadillac had been locked in place.Ībove are some early styling sketches for the 1948 Cadillac. Mitchell had no significant involvement, as he was still involved in the service during that time. Hershey returned and was assigned to start working on the new 1948 Cadillac.
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We saw that you could take one line and continue it from the cowl all the way back to the tip of the tail – that you could have one unbroken flowing line.”īoth Mitchell and Hershey ended up serving during the war. Bill Mitchell later said in an interview with James Howell “You have to understand the value of what we saw in that plane’s design. The viewing had significant impact on the designers, and was the inspiration for Hershey’s tail fins on the 1948 Cadillac. Earl brought along his top designers including Bill Mitchell and Frank Hershey. In the late 1930’s Harley Earl received special permission from the US Government to have sneak peek at the newly developed Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Consequently, I started doing my own digging and I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole the result is this article on GM’s body interchangeability program. There are few historians that have delved deeply into this time period of General Motors. Coincidentally, when JP originally published this article I had just finished reading Thomas Bonsall’s book The Cadillac Story, which discusses some of those changes in finer detail. His excellent two-part article looked at the post-war changes occurring at General Motors that seemingly put its body sharing program in turmoil.
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Last year, CC’s JP Cavanaugh examined the mystery of the 1949-50 GM B-body.