Alexander Sarantos Tremulis was an American industrial designer in the North American automotive industry.
12 Facts About Alex Tremulis
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Alex Tremulis was the son of Antonia and Sarantos Alex Tremulis, Greek immigrants from a village near Sparta.
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Alex Tremulis briefly worked for General Motors before moving to Briggs-Le Baron, a custom coachbuilder for Chrysler at the time.
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Alex Tremulis was a consultant for Crosley and American Bantam in 1939.
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Alex Tremulis was the creative source for the 1941 Chrysler "Thunderbolt" concept car.
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Alex Tremulis worked on advanced aircraft concepts at Wright Field, and developed a concept, which in the 1960s became known as the Boeing Dyna-Soar, a gliding re-entry space vehicle.
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In 1957, as a Ford employee, Alex Tremulis was assigned the task of designing the car that "he believed we would be driving in the year 2000".
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Alex Tremulis drew up plans and made a clay model of the Ford X-2000, a concept that would later be brought to life in the form of a working prototype in 1999 by UK customiser Andy Saunders, who showed it at car shows in 1999 and 2000.
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Alex Tremulis designed the 1962 Ford Seattle-ite XXI concept car for the Seattle World's Fair.
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Alex Tremulis left Ford in 1963 to found his own consulting firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Alex Tremulis served as a consultant for the 1988 film Tucker: The Man and His Dream in which he was played by Elias Koteas.
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Alex Tremulis was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California.