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Gene Winfield Dies: Custom Car Designer For ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Star Trek’ & More Was 97
Gene Winfield died March 4, 2025, at 97, He was a pioneering hot-rod legend who created custom cars for films and TV including 'Blade Runner' and 'tar Trek.'
Winfield was known as “The King of Kustoms,” and his most famous creations include the iconic Galileo shuttlecraft and the Jupiter 8 for Star Trek — the latter seen in the episode “Bread and Circuses” — and the “spinners” for Blade Runner, which was nominated for the Special Effects Oscar. Born on June 16, 1927, in Springfield, MO, Winfield moved with his family as a toddler to the Central California town of Modesto, where he grew up. By age 10, he was working on cars, beginning a lifelong gearhead obsession that led to auto racing and building by the early ’50s, after a stint in the Army.
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