S1 Ep309: The GM Madman Who Built the Stingray in Secret

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Meet Bill Mitchell, the hard-drinking, womanizing, design genius who shaped General Motors’ golden age. From the Corvette Stingray to the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado, Mitchell’s fingerprints are on nearly every iconic GM car of the ’50s through ’70s. He defied bans, built secret studios, and literally climbed trees drunk at company parties. It’s the wild story of the man who made American cars beautiful — and himself impossible to ignore.

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1:47.0	Hey, how you doing? Welcome back to past gas.
1:49.0	This week we're talking about a guy named Bill Mitchell, responsible for some of the most iconic designs in General Motors history,
1:55.0	C2 Stingray Corvette, Buick Riviera, Cadillville, you name it. He probably had his hand in it.
2:02.2	He is a wild man. He got really drunk at a company party and had to be rescued by the fire department.
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