Quote Originally Posted by 1gary View Post
During the same time the 57's where around,GM used to hold competitions for kids to build clay models of cars for the design teams to use for new ideas.
Let me momentarily highjack the thread.... This brings up something I noticed years ago. My own drawings that I did as a "highschooler" seemed to have more imagination, than I do now... after almost 40 years of custom painting!!!

The answer I came up with is that we all become conditioned to think alike, by reading the same magazines... building the same models... watching the same car movies... idolizing the same "hero cars"... and eventually tend to think "inside the box". Kids are fresh to the hobby, and tend to be more original!

This was all a culture shock, for me! {:-o