Blaine Jenkins designed the interiors of some of GM's biggest hits in the 1960s and 1970s.
Essentially unknown to the public -- even to the most dedicated automobile enthusiasts -- Blaine Jenkins has an exceptional history of accomplishment in car design despite never having shaped a fender, a taillight, or any other gross physical element of a production-car exterior. That's not to say that he didn't draw exteriors. Even now he enjoys the intellectual challenge of taking a historical vehicle and bringing it up to date with the canons of a later time -- he cites having evolved the 1950 Hudson into a possible 1965 model as an example of this. But apart from his fascination with and expertise in exterior paint colors, Jenkins is an "inside man," someone who helped create the instrument clusters, steering wheels, seats, and trim panels of cars that represent the absolute peak of General Motors' hegemony over the world automotive industry, those flamboyant vehicles author John Keats characterized as "insolent chariots" in his 1958 best-seller of the same name.
Photo Gallery: Inside Man: Blaine Jenkins - Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: Inside Man: Blaine Jenkins - Automobile Magazine
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