About Us
600,000 Youths Work on Autos of Tomorrow, read the headline of a New York Times article of April 2, 1967. Since the end of WWII General Motors had been sponsoring the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, a scaled model automobile design competition. It was a national program promoted through industrial arts programs of our nation’s schools. It offered state and regional cash awards as well as national scholarships valued up to $5000 annually in junior and senior divisions. During these golden years of automobile design, tens of thousands of boys aged 10 to 20 modeled “dream car” and submitted them to the General Motors headquarters for judging. Many of these boys became automobile designers. Prior to the WWII it had been a craftsmanship competition for building model Napoleonic coaches. This website is dedicated the legacy of the talented boys who participated in the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild….
