At this section we examine how Ford Motor Co. only started using H.J. Earl's advanced "clay modeling & the styling bridge" technology in the years directly following Henry Ford's death in 1947. 

It wasn’t just Ford who copied Mr. Earl's GM Styling paradigm, but all worldwide auto makers looking to sell cars in the free world got onboard during the advent of the 1950s and 1960s. Each one of these auto manufacturers established an "automotive design department" within their corporate hierarchy...and to not have done so, meant certain death in as far as selling modern cars successfully in the American market place. So, each car company fully understood that this new hybrid engineering area would be a fundamental feature in the entire sphere of how a company's product design would first come to life and develop along with becoming a major new factor in the determination of corporate policy. 

This new order (the GM way of how cars are created) has held the test of time and remains completely intact today. Nobody, or any worldwide auto maker has yet to come up with a better way to supersede this advanced engineering process which is the very first step of building motor cars and/or industrialized transportation products. 

Ford Motor Company's very first auto design section came to life for one reason only -- GM was becoming astronomically successful and kicking Ford's butt in sales statistics. And again, it was all based on a pre-engineering code and/or secretive labyrinth of Mr. Earl's technicalities of engineering design...and Ford wasn't using this more-modern process. Period. Amazingly, GM had helped Earl keep his area enshrouded in a web of secrecy for approximately 20-years before all GM's major competitors caught on by the late 1940s and early 1950s. And this is when every other car maker, who could afford to,  ganged on board to change and modernize and do it the "GM Way."  (Directly below is a 6-page TIME magazine article from 1964 on how important the auto design process is to selling cars in America.  

Conclusion: In the long run, the true story of how come Detroit's auto leaders of the last 40-years hid all this important historical record and/or information behind how the modern car is born...is just going to create a firestorm of controversy. 

What's it all mean though for the future of Detroit and the American auto industry? Can the storytelling side of "how exactly" the automobile became a more artful product in the modern age end up helping Detroit and the American auto industry rise up again? Yes it can. 

And, good things are finally going to happen that will eclipse a succession of dreary decades that simply were Detroit's worst performance years of the twentieth century (1970s, 80s and 1990s). So, the exact same Detroit leaders and execs responsible for subverting all this important history are the selfsame people behind the pandemonium that sent Detroit and it's auto world into a tailspin starting back in 1970s. Naturally, these old players and their minions don't ever want to be exposed for what they truly did and are accountable for: Dragging Detroit and it's giant auto world down into a dreary succession and literally creating and stacking one failure on top of the next.