James[Jim] M. Earl passed on more on his knowledge when talking in an interview on his father, Harley, "When it came to heading the charge in this new direction, Harley Earl was on a mission and hired some of the top aerodynamicists and engineering talent in the country during the late 1950s. Harley personally saw to it that Bob McLean and Dr. Peter Kyropoulos of Cal Tech fame (pictured left and right of Earl below), were brought in to GM Styling." The following 1957 Los Angeles Times article titled, National Figure, is on Dr. Kyropoulos going to work for Harley Earl. "Because of secrecy issues related to advanced GM designs and trends, that naturally effected the company's potential fortunes, Harley always ' just did it' instead of 'talking things up,' that he was working on."

Our sleek modern-day automobiles are the direct result of Harley Earl's futurism and/or early pacesetting trend which was also the first touch of class and beauty aimed at appealing to the feminine side of the car market. The first full-time automobile design department in the auto industry was established by Mr. Earl for General Motors Corporation. When he retired he was a GM Vice President with a list of engineering innovations that went from erasing running boards to the concept of the first experimental "dream car." Harley Earl had an eclat and was able to translate it to the industry he loved so much. 

Bubble-top streamlining was a specialty of H.J. Earl. 

Nobody has ever put it all together before how the same guy who was inventing many of the best product designs for U.S. warfare ordinance was commingling his various designs back and forth with the automobile world. Yes, it was the man responsible for all the designs of the largest manufacturer on the planet! 

It's another reason Mr. Earl had unlimited funding to build anything he wanted after World War Two. It is very well documented how Designer-Earl spent millions on various dream products of self-propelled locomotion - ranging from cars, trucks, buses, trains and aircraft. Mr. Earl had the power and clout to go where no engineer had ever gone before. It's no wonder the other traditional auto engineers were so jealous of all his work. 

Fact: Back in the 1950s, the only person within GM, or Detroit, who was unrestricted to pump out dream cars that cost millions of dollars was Harley Earl. To this day, most people are not cognizant of all this man's activities on account of what happened to Detroit's auto world afterwards leading up to today. GM's leaders simply suppressed all these important milestones of Harley Earls and/or spun them around to only make the company, or themselves, look good. 

One of the reasons has to do with the fact there are no modern age auto-innovators like Harley Earl anywhere in Detroit's automotive world these days...and one of the saddest facts today, is that no finance guy running any of the big-3 automakers these days wants to find some person, like a Harley Earl, because then they'd have to share (the creative control) the money, power and prestige of their position. 

click here to see GM Styling Section during WW-Two

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