From Blade Runner to Last Starfighter, Making Prop Cars: A Spotlight on Gene Winfield
Room 212ABCD
Saturday April 22, 2017 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Gene Winfield has had a 70 year career creating vehicles for movies such as Blade Runner, Robocop 1 & 2, The Last Starfighter and Back to the Future 2 to name a few. As well as TV shows such as Star Trek, Bewitched, Batman, Bonanza, Get Smart, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mr. Winfield not only designs and builds cars, but also created the Galileo Shuttlecraft and the Klingon D7 Battlecruiser for Star Trek, and worked for the AMT corporation designing model kits. Mr. Winfield currently tours the country going to car shows and teaching metal work classes. At 89 years of age he is still designing and building custom cars for TV, movies, museums and private collections.
