When A Big Business Prospers, The People Prosper

GOOD TASTE principles and STYLING LEADERSHIP should be brought out of mothballs today at General Motors to lead a charge back up to victory row. But now that this company has fallen to No. 2 behind Toyota, it's probably not going to ever happen. Harley Earl's fundamental design components, mentioned above, originally played a vital role in the Motorama, and Detroit, reaching "Golden Age" status. So, that's why some American auto execs might want to consider dusting off Earl's business model to quell the foreign car company invasion going on right now in this country. 

Keep scrolling down to get more of an eye opener on GM's jet age rise

What's important to demonstrate from the Progress In Plastics report written up for GM Folks magazine in 1953, above, is the level of heightened cooperation happening inside this large corporation between the Styling and Engineering departments. 

'54 Cadillac El Camino dream car, above, was truly a ultra streamlined masterwork of engineering. Find out later why this fantastic vehicle got crushed. 

El Espada was another wonder car that wowed millions of Motorama audience members. 

Like most of the novel ideas H.J. Earl introduced, the TV system which replaced the rearview mirror featured above, was decades ahead of its time...long before LEXUS introduced their version in 2003.