All this scholarly evidence unearths a new perspective as well as allowing another vantage point on how this man's Detroit contemporaries viewed things.

The following images chronicle further documented media coverage inside Volume I. With headlines like " ENGINEERS' HOTROD " - "GENERAL MOTORS BUILDS A SPORTS CAR! "- "CAR OF THE FUTURE" and  "LABORATORY ON WHEELS" it becomes clearer now why other traditional auto engineers and even scientists across the country were tuned in to Harley Earl's once more raising the bar in this industry...Simply put, Harley Earl was always pushing hard, or was the hardest hitter, at bettering the standard mass produced vehicle.

As it is easy to decipher now, the writers of the three above newspaper stories guessed low when estimating LE SABRE's cost. HJE always kept information like this in the dark. Never revealing all the car's secrets, the price-tag is a perfect example, created a mysterious halo around America's newest super sportster. That was always part of H.J. Earl's plan.