Elwood Engel

Elwood Engel was born in New Jersey and raised in New York. He studied industrial design at Pratt Institute and began his career designing locomotives, women’s wear, and several displays for the 1939 New York World’s Fair before turning to automotive design. After graduating in 1939, he worked in General Motors’ advanced studio under Jules Agromonti and Tom Hibbard, and later in the Pontiac Studio under Frank Hershey. Engel left General Motors (GM) to join the armed forces during World War II, serving in the horse cavalry and later as a cartographer in the tank corps. Near the end of the war, Joe Oros, a fellow young designer from GM, recommended that Engel work alongside him at George Walker’s... more.

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