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A designer who started out at Brewster who later went to Harley Earl's
studios and would later design the famous 1946-48 Oldsmobile "fishmouth"
grills/front ends.
Harley Earl created the world’s first concept car, the Buick Y-Job of 1938
which carried the fingerprints of George Snyder, one of the first who gave
“organic” a meaning in car design parlance.
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The Y-Job was to be a dream car that would evaluate public taste. As with
almost all Harley Earl designs, someone else actually did the drawing -- in
this case GM stylist George Snyder.
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But it was the look of the Harley
Earl designed, George Snyder drawn and
modeled Y-Job that establishes it’s legend today. No running boards, flush
door handles, disappearing headlights,
smaller 13” tires, and horizontal chrome speed lines, gave it a long and low
profile that influenced automobile designers for decades to come.
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The Y-Job was a collaborative effort within GM Design. Earl supplied the
inspiration and a critical eye, George Snyder put the lines on paper and
Buick Chief Engineer Charlie Chayne supervised the modifications to the
production Buick Century chassis that became the foundation of GM's
groundbreaking concept car.
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