Scot Drake: Shaping Entertainment
Automotive Design & Production › Vol. 120 Nbr. 7, July 2008
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He always knew from an early age that he wanted to be involved in the auto industry in some way, says Scot Drake, who spent his formative years in the pits at midget and sprint car races near his home town of Santa Clarita, CA. Fresh faced and eager to turn his talent into a career, Drake enrolled in the transportation design program at Art Center in Pasadena, penning race cars and bicycles. Shortly after switching from transportation to entertainment curricula, Drake was offered an internship at Disney, where he spent nine months designing Star Cruiser vehicles for the "Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster" ride and life-sized joysticks for a Mighty Ducks attraction: Once he got the exposure to how everything worked, he got hooked on entertainment design, he says.
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Scot Drake: Shaping Entertainment
"I always knew from an early age that I wanted to be involved in the auto industry in some way," says Scot Drake, who spent his formative years in the pits at midget and sprint car ra...
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