SIA Flashback – The Designers, Part I: Amos Northup

While we won’t publish the entire series of famous automotive designer profiles that Michael Lamm wrote for SIA (for the entire series and more, check out A Century of Automotive Style), but the one that Lamm kicked off the series with, a profile on Amos Northup for SIA #153, May 1996, is worth reading, if for nothing else than the variety of cars that Northup designed in his cut-too-short career, thanks to his association with Murray. To Northup’s credit go designs for (among others) Wills Sainte Claire, Willys, Graham, Reo, and Hupmobile – in fact, some of the most striking and forward-thinking designs those companies ever implemented.