Bill Mitchell (designer)

Bill Mitchell ( born July 2, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio; † September 12, 1988; actually William L. Mitchell ) was an American designer of car bodies and models, where he mainly worked for Chevrolet, Cadillac or GM.

Bill Mitchell, who grew up in Greenville, Pennsylvania, was as Vice President of Design Department Art and Color Section at General Motors responsible for the shape of almost 72 million cars, which accounted for nearly 50 percent of the total U.S. market in its 17 years. These included the 70 Camaro, the 1967 Eldorado, the 1977 Impala, the '63 Riviera and the 75er Seville. In 1938, he was already chief designer for Cadillac, where he met the Cadillac celebrated its first success 60 Special. He became famous, however, with the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray (Split Window ) by 1963.

In 1977, he finally retired from GM and started his own design firm, where he worked a lot for Goodyear and Yamaha. Since he already went as a young man in self-built chariot race, he was also later to constantly find at races and remained unwavering in his car enthusiast. The Corvette embodied doing his attitude to cars. His appeal and his exhortation to the car designer was: "Let them look as if they could do a thing! ". For Mitchell should be special car impetuous, fast, beautiful and determined look, in short, anything really.

• Vehicle designer
• Americans
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1988
• Man
• General Motors