Jeff Teague and his AMX/4 rendering.
Like any of us, Jeff Teague could have become anything he wanted, but with a father as passionate about cars – particularly older cars and auto design – as legendary auto designer Dick Teague, it probably only seemed natural Jeff, who died last Friday at the age of 59, become an auto designer as well.
By recruiting Jeff to help with annual car restoration projects, the senior Teague certainly fostered an appreciation of the mechanics of cars, but Jeff perhaps gained a better appreciation for the aesthetics of cars from his high-school friend Mark Jordan, son of Chuck Jordan, who would show Jeff his design sketches and prod Jeff to work on his own.
Images courtesy Jeff Teague.
Mark also proved influential in luring Jeff away from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and out to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, from which he graduated in 1978. While his father still served as vice-president of design at American Motors at the time, Jeff instead went to Ford, where he worked under Jack Telnack on designs for the 1983 Ford Thunderbird, the 1984 Lincoln Continental, and the 1986 Ford Taurus.
Midway through the 1980s, he left Ford for a chief designer position at Mitsubishi, and he continued designing and consulting for OEMs until 2000, when he started his own design company, Teague Design, outside of Los Angeles.
Image courtesy Jeff Teague.
While at Teague Design Jeff was able to combine his and his father’s passion for older cars with his design talents, most notably by designing a 21st Century Duesenberg for a company called Duesenberg Custom Coach and a series of updated AMC concepts, including a Gremlin and an AMX/4 that he later turned into a clay model and had hoped to eventually put into production. In later years he reunited with Mark Jordan to form a new design studio, JTDNA.
A memorial service for Jeff will take place August 28 at the Art Center in Pasadena.
See original article at" https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/08/05/designer-jeff-teague-son-of-dick-teague-dies-at-59/
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