a visit to the GM Heritage Center, concepts and show cars

A significant portion of the GM Heritage Center’s display floor consists of various prototype, concept and show cars from throughout the years, including the multihued Corvette concepts above (AeroVette, front; Corvette TigerShark and Corvette Indy, center; one of the CERVs, rear). Of course I couldn’t ignore them while roaming the display.

The Le Sabre. If you couldn’t tell, we’re big fans of the Le Sabre around these parts. I’d seen it in person before at the Glenmoor Gathering a few years back, but it’s always a thrill to see it before you.

Two of the three Firebird turbine cars still makes for an impressive display.

On the left, the Cadillac Imaj; on the right, the EldoRODo.

The Astro II…

…and the Astro III, still on the original display stand

Buick’s Blackhawk, a modern interpretation of the Y-Job from several years ago.

Cadillac’s 1953 Le Mans two-seat roadster concept

Pontiac’s third generation of the Banshee concept. Behind it, the 1977 Type K Trans Am.

The two Corvair Monza concepts, the GT on the left and the SS on the right. They’re much smaller in person than in any photographs I’ve seen before.

And in the lobby they had this 1958 Corvette that Harley Earl let a staff of female designers loose on. They came up with the custom color, along with a host of minor touches intended to make the Corvette more female-friendly.


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GM Heritage Center, the displays

In the April issue of Hemmings Classic Car, the second issue of our two-part celebration of GM’s centennial, you’ll find a pair of articles about the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan: one profiling Greg Wallace, the director of the center, and another sampling the cars in the collection.

Unfortunately, the GM Heritage Center is not a museum and not open to the general public, so unless you’re among the fortunate few to get a chance to tour it, consider this your best glimpse into the collection.

Of course, we couldn’t show nearly all of the photographs I took the day I visited the Heritage Center, and last-minute changes in the page count for the issue forced us to cut a few pages from both stories. But fortunately, we have the blog.



So over the next several days, I’ll include as many of these photos as possible before my editors tell me to get back to working on other stories. Dialup users beware!

























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GM Heritage Center, the displays

Of the nearly 1,000 cars, trucks and concepts in the GM Heritage Center collection, about 180 to 200 are on display at any one time. And each one is worth plenty of time to pore over. Thus, I shot way too many photos. Check out part 1 of the visit if you missed it.














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