American custom car designer (born 1927) whose workshop built the full-size shuttlecraft Galileo for the original Star Trek and supplied the car seen in Bread and Circuses.
Gene Winfield was a celebrated Californian customiser of cars who, in the mid 1960s, ran a speciality workshop for the model-kit company AMT. When Star Trek needed a full-size shuttlecraft, AMT agreed to build it in return for the right to sell kits of the Enterprise, and the job went to Winfield's shop.
The resulting exterior mock-up of the Galileo first appeared in The Galileo Seven and was used whenever a shuttlecraft was needed for the rest of the series. One of Winfield's show cars, the Reactor, also appears in Bread and Circuses as the Jupiter 8 advertised on Roman-style television.
Winfield later built vehicles for a number of science-fiction films, among them Blade Runner.