Unfolding at this area of the website is one of the great behind the scenes stories of American Business...on Harley Earl’s ardent passion towards quelling his No. 1 Detroit nemesis: Henry Ford was a giant anti-Semite who partnered with Adolf Hitler's deranged pre WW II vision of how the world should unfold in the future. This enormous subplot is one of the reasons Harley Earl's story remains untold today. While Henry Ford went on to drive his company to the brink of bankruptcy directly following the war years (Ford died in 1947 at the age of 83), Earl was guiding General Motors to the top. 

    o      Earl’s pre-war ties to his Hollywood Jewish counterparts who supported and appreciated his forms of beautiful artwork (custom motoramic masterpieces in metal), resulted in an enthusiastic loyalty towards the Jews. The following quote is from a Feb. 12, 1996 USA TODAY new story on the centennial of the American auto industry [entire story is detailed further down at this section], "Earl got his start in Hollywood in the 1920s as a car customizer, making models longer, lower and sportier for movie stars."

    o      The bitter rivalry between Ford and Earl was as much about religion, politics and personal style as it was about cars. Ford’s anti-Semitism versus Earl’s loyalty towards his early Hollywood mentors; Ford’s utilitarian machines versus Earl’s colorful, ever-evolving confections; Ford's farm-boy aesthetic versus Earl’s Hollywood flair; Ford's nasty anti-labor union sentiments versus Earl’s effortless movement through the stratospheres of big business and show business.

It's time to even the score and tell why Henry Ford, the 'old master' of twentieth century motorcar history, is such a lousy role model (especially for kids!) relating to Detroit's auto world moving into the future. Essentially, Ford had a flawed character since he was so captivated by the idea of Jewish financiers plotting to undermine the United States prior to World War Two. Henry Ford became a proselytizer for "The Protocols" in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. Adolph Hitler, an admirer of Ford, was introduced to "The Protocols" by the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, and cited it in "Mein Kampf." More than 23 editions of the The Protocols were published by the Nazi party.

This 34-page 1939 newspaper, illustrated above, was dedicated to exposing how warped and un-American this powerful businessman had become prior to World War Two (Ford's rant against the Jews had been going on for nearly 20 years up to this time). Anyway, fast forward to the mid-1990s to find out how the moron-minds running Detroit's auto industry were still standing behind Henry Ford being their quintessential "great American auto pioneer of the 20th century." Regardless of Henry Ford's checkered past, GM, Ford and Chrysler's leading execs chose to canonize this one  "auto pioneer of Detroit's illustrious auto world history" so the public could embrace him before, during and after the American auto industry's centennial celebration in 1996. Little did these prejudiced leaders know, but they had just pined Detroit's future hopes on the wrong man to represent America's auto industry going forward into the twenty-first century!

It seems natural that over a decade later, in August of 2007, Motown's off based harbingers of 1996 picked such a bad metaphorical figure to represent this giant American industry. This proves how far the leaders in Detroit have spiraled down...along with showing the likely future direction of how things will continue to go unless something radical is done to reverse this course. Washington should investigate and also push for reform, before it's too late, and even oust incompetent execs presently in charge at the top of Detroit's auto industry today. 

Henry Ford's beliefs and core values around his movement of "Jews being the world's foremost problem" was an extreme negative proposition. By the late 1930s, Ford knew he was being used by Fascist groups all over the world and that reprints of his writings on "The Jewish Question" in his Dearborn Independent magazine had become a "best seller" among the Nazis. L.M. Birkhead headed the FRIENDS OF DEMOCRACY, INC. that printed all the supporting evidence in this 33-page newspaper, above. Being the national director, Birkhead's organization called "upon Henry Ford, as a loyal and liberty-loving American, to do the following: Recant his beliefs on Jews being the world's foremost problem and for Ford to stop further publication and circulation of pamphlets and books containing copies of or extracts from the The Dearborn Independent articles." The main goal of the Friends of Democracy organization was to publicly divulge Ford's dramatic role of being in bed with Adolph Hitler and his deranged Nazism beliefs for a new world order. Thankfully this group of patriots [Friends of Democracy, Inc.] were successful in exposing Ford's bodyguard of lies and eventually made him publicly recant. If Ford hadn't recanted, he probably would been told to leave American soil in 1941 -- when the United States entered WW II.

Back to the present; people all over America often wonder why Dearborn, Michigan has the largest Muslim faction of any great U.S. city. The main reason can be tied directly back to the beacon of hatred Henry Ford had towards the Jews. This is why so many Muslims originally moved to be around Henry Ford and his car company. So naturally the Ford family, their car company and many of Dearborn's powerful Muslims today deny this truism since they want to keep one of Detroit's dirtiest secrets buried and out of sight from the national spotlight. 

Regardless, America's auto capital needs a new metaphorical leader, in history, to drive Detroit forward successfully into the 21st century. Harley Earl, not Henry Ford, is the right man for the job. 

Who is the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the Last 75 Years of Auto History (1933 to 2008)? Easy to Prove, it was "Harley Earl" for DESIGN was the No. 1 Reason for Car Sales by the end of the 20^TH Century.

The founder of the Ford Motor Company and pioneer responsible for the iconic Model T, the $5 work day and the first automotive assembly line, Henry Ford was the perfect rival and foil for Harley Earl. Detroit’s reigning Goliath and its upstart David were joined in battle in 1927, the year Ford stopped producing his outmoded, always-black Model T and Earl designed the flashy Cadillac LaSalle, the first stylist’s car to go into mass production. Their 20-year rivalry was all about darkness and light. 

The behind-the-scene story the media and the public never heard is that Henry Ford and his fair weather utilitarian machine, the Model-T, simply served as a stepping-stone to Harley Earl's newly proven ways to engineer and create more beautiful forms of automobile masterpieces for the masses. "Affordable luxury" or "turning hurrying into pleasure" was the drumbeat Earl lived by and shared with others auto execs inside GM which then allowed this automaker to first sculpt their cars, in clay models, that would later be radically transformed into Detroit's finest climaxes in sheet metal that would then be dramatically advertised, marketed and pumped off GM's many different assemble lines nationwide. Truly, it is Harley Earl's cars that most people today can associate being the automobiles that symbolize Detroit's greatest era of prosperity: The one that took place in MODERN TIMES! So, is there really any wonder who created the modern paradigm of auto building that the entire auto industry follows today? Even if there were any color still photos of Henry Ford or color reel footage movies to be found on this old master (it was publicly revealed at the 100th anniversary celebration of Ford Motor Co. in June, 2003 that there are none), how would anyone today even recognize this man immortalized in American history for being so black and white?

Who was perhaps Detroit's "greatest industrial pioneer in the last 75 years of the twentieth century" - Henry Ford or Harley Earl? Which man truly has the most Detroit milestones, auto innovations and really did leave the biggest mark on today's American society and culture...not to mention the entire automobile world? The answers to these questions might surprise you...and that's why a decision, based on what American's think, should be put to a vote. Henry Ford's story is told, while Harley Earl's is simply untold. So, in order to be able to make this competition come to light in front of an American audience, Harley Earl's story first has to be brought forward and told to the general American audience. Then, by say 2008 or 2010, a wonderful contest match could be put into motion whereby a foregone conclusion could be made answering the all-important question: Who is the undisputed heavyweight champion behind the last 75 years of American auto history?

Harley Earl and one of his modern masterpieces of engineering, below, the 1951 LE SABRE

Below is Henry Ford's most impressive personal creation that made him famous, the Model-T

February 5, 2004 Detroit Free Press newspaper story on Motordom's new "MODERN MASTER"

Trailblazing into the 1930s, Harley Earl had a sophisticated knowledge of how to build "modern" cars for America's future. On the other hand, by 1927, Henry Ford had clearly proved to a nation he was ill-equipped to be the leader of the future auto world. 

With an unsophisticated knowledge of how to build modern cars (excerpt reported directly below taken from Crain's Detroit Business) is just another clear indication of how backwards Henry Ford really was...proving he was not the right person to lead a nation's industrial heartland...forward. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Ford's auto company quickly lost it's No. 1 position to GM. ESSENTIALLY, FORD DROPPED THE BATON...AND HARLEY EARL PICKED IT UP...AND THIS AUTO PIONEER* HAS BEEN RUNNING WITH IT EVER SINCE. Now Ford Motor Co. is in the No. 3 position having just recently lost the No. 2 position to Toyota. One can only realize the significance of all this by knowing that Ford had held this No. 2 position in history for over 70-years straight.

* Nobody in the last 75-years of auto history has even come close to superseding Harley Earl's giant list of modern milestones and accomplishments. This man opened up a whole new door for which the auto world ended up going into. This modern auto pioneer's rules and principles are still leading the industry forward, too. Is Harley Earl's modern "Driven By Design" fable a complex story? You bet...but that's what makes it run so deep. Ford's story is actually the surface scratch of what lay on top of the giant iceberg of Harley Earl's modern day success story of creating the No. 1 reason for car sales. Don't forget, it was Halrey Earl who supplied GM with a design monopoly for decades of time by creating the American Look in automobile fashion. Naturally after Harley Earl's run came to an end, the next group of execs and auto leaders of GM couldn't follow up where he left off...they hadn't a clue what good taste principles were all about (didn't know a good looking car from a canoe). So, not much has changed in Detroit after all these years. How can someone make such a bold comment as this last one? Because the U.S. car industry is a follower rather than a leader today. Everybody inside the industry knows this...plus, Detroit's big three automakers are hemorrhaging market share at an unprecedented pace.

Harley Earl's legacy that takes us from his early Hollywood years to changing Detroit's Motor City is uncontaminated by any "Mass Production of Hate" that Henry Ford's life & work will endlessly be tarnished by in history. But what's most important are the facts currently out there in the public domain showing that Harley Earl is a far better 'modern master' role model....especially to aspiring young people. On the other hand, Henry Ford is simply the 'old master' who doesn't even have one feather of modernity in his cap of milestones and achievements. 

"David Lewis, a professor of business history at the University of Michigan, said Mr. Earl belonged "on anybody's list among the 10 great figures of automotive history." Before Mr. Earl came from Hollywood, there was more to the industry than Model T's, but any artful design was done by outside consultants. "He introduced formalized styling into the automobile industry," Mr. Lewis said. "He came in from the West Coast and brought in California styling. His cars were very attractive and a breath of fresh air insofar as Detroit is concerned.”

Some of Detroit's finest history of the twentieth century hasn't even been publicly released yet. For example, which other auto titans, who made the 1981 cut from the "Top 30 Automen" article detailed above, did anything near as significant as the one accomplishment vividly brought to light on Harley Earl in this NEW YORK TIMES from October 16, 1997 shown directly below. It's truly amazing that a national audience doesn't even yet have a clue this auto innovator "created the No. 1 reason for car sales" in the modern era!  After all, if this one man had not championed the "automobile design profession," Detroit's auto world would have never been able to market and sell all their products the way it has been done done now for over sixty odd years since WW II. Without Mr. Earl's driven-by-design business model, the majority of the car buying American public today would have never felt a powerful fever which necessitates their desire to buy a car. Regardless of all the detractor's spin, looks count and "design" has always remained the biggest selling point. 

When Mr. Earl's story is finally broken down and analyzed it becomes a lot easier to disseminate the rest of his valuable milestones and/or modern exploits. 

A 1996 newspaper story from USA TODAY, below, provides more irrefutable outside evidence outlining areas behind some of Harley Earl's No. 1 accomplishments. One of the most important things to take from this succinct article is that Earl is the only leaders who was a Pioneer, Designer, Titan and a Maverick. See, none of the others had all the ingredients. Here's a couple more items mentioned from this very news report:

•    Notice 1926 timeline info:  -  "GM initiates the first model change, brainchild of stylist Harley Earl."

•    Comment from The Designers segment at very bottom of this news story, - "Credited with inventing the annual model change, a bid to get Americans to buy more cars after World War II."

What a difference a half-century makes, fifty years ago (1953) Buick had near a 10 % market share of the American auto industry!