The best car shows have come together before the first vehicle hits the grass. Eyes On Design is one of the best car shows in the world. It looks beyond, accepting its vehicles by design intent and judged by active and former global design staff members. GM-Trucks.com attended Eyes On Design 2021 – here’s what we saw.

A Chopped Peterbuilt

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Randy Grubbs Piss’d Off Pete based on a chopped Peterbuilt.
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12-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engine rips the air every time its throttle is blipped.

A 1936 Chevrolet dually

Powered by a 206.8 cubic inch engine—the Stovebolt Inline-6 or the first Blue Flame Six— the truck is simply wonderful to behold and restored and owned by Fred Muszynski.

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Fred Muszynski’s restored 1936 pickup.

Sporting a custom-built bed above a 131-inch wheelbase, the truck was likely first an Open Express Pickup or 1 1/2-ton Stake, though a 157-inch wheelbase Stake and 1 1/2-ton High Rack were available in 1936 according to Chevrolet.

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Custom-built bed atop 1936 duallie.

This engine is rated at 79 horsepower at 3200 RPM and compression ratio is 6.0:1

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Call it the first Blue Flame or last Stovebolt, the base design endured for decades.

Instruments were “grouped directly in front of the driver on a raised panel with indirect lighting. The four-speed Synchro-Mesh transmission uses a “Radial Wave” clutch and brakes are hydraulic. Oh, the fuel tank is beneath the cab’s seat!

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Today’s buyers likely couldn’t cope with no telematics—and a stick shift.

Two Studebaker Pickups

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1939 Studebaker L-5 Coupe Express
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1950 Studebaker R2-5

Chevrolet’s C-8 Corvette Is The Reality Born From These Concepts

Before the starkly gritty and dazzling C8 Corvette, there were multiple design studies. Here, we present four shown at Eyes On.

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The future before it was.
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1986 Corvette Indy
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A collaboration between VP of GM Design Chuck Jordan and Tom Peters
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1973 Aerovette
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Perhaps a prototype for “the next C4 Corvette”
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1972 Reynolods Corvette Experimental
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400 hp small block powered XP-882
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1968 XP-880 Astro II
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With a backwards mounted 7.0L, it pulled 1.0G on street tires.

Eyes On Design returns on Father’s Day, Sunday June 19, 2022.