The alluring work of art -- the Firebird III by Harley Earl -- gracing the cover of this new book, THE ART AND COLOUR OF GENERAL MOTORS is certainly nice to look at, but what's written inside this hardcover is just a puff piece put out for GM's 100th Birthday by Michael Furman, Bob Lutz, Jonathan A. Stein and Nicola Bvlgari. The book is laced with factual inaccuracies and is a hack job on what could have been an iconic historiography of a celebrated artist/engineer who created the art and color of the modern auto world. 

While trying to contact Michael Furman in Oct. 2008 for a quote on his new book for this website, I [Richard Earl] questioned staff artist, David Phillips, who works for Furman's photographic studio in Philadelphia, PA. and wasn't surprised at all when Phillips said the following, "After working with Bob Lutz on this book project, I quickly found out Lutz was not only arrogant but would put his name on anything." 

This book goes a long way confusing the hell out of interested readers of this topic. Once you read it, you can better understand why Lutz and his minions at GM ultimately aim to puzzle everyone on Detroit's great design history from long ago. They hate the invidious comparison between the great cars of fifty years ago and the crap GM and Detroit's other manufactures put on American roadways these days. The Furman/Lutz book will further turn the American public off by anything designed-and-made-in-Detroit going into 2009. According to Clyde Hensley, a product expert of GM’s media archives in Detroit, before he was downsized out of the company in 2006, "This book is just the kind of historiography a failed GM administration would earmark. Lutz's close involvement with, The Art And Colour of General Motors is a testament to how top brass in Detroit engagingly perpetuate hiding the body-of-knowledge and historical facts standing behind Harley Earl and his remarkable design story. Ex-GM CEO, Roger Smith, pulled the same stunts when publishing GM’s design history around the company's seventy-fifth anniversary back in September 1983."

While you are here at the Official Harley Earl Website, peruse the links below that will point you to the authentic historical information behind the founder of the ART & COLOUR section of General Motors. Our scholarly information is properly researched and is polar opposite Michael Furman's interpretations in his above shown book. Boil down on the facts of this automotive pioneer's life and work:

FIND OUT THE NEVER BEFORE TOLD STORY BEHIND THE REVOLUTIONARY FIGURE WHO FIRST CREATED, DETROIT'S DEPENDENCY ON DESIGN.

To start, view the following brief 60 MINUTES clip whereby current Vice Chairman of GM, Bob Lutz slips up and tells Steve Kroft exactly where GM's financial boys were located 50 years ago in Detroit's auto world (when the entire business was properly managed), "During the parade of GM's greatness in the 50s and 60s Design ruled and the finance people ran behind to reestablish order and pick up the pieces. We've just lost the focus on Design." Yes, GM's current treasury office administrators have fraudulently been keeping this fact buried for decades of time now...all on account of personal gain! In no way, shape or form will modern leaders address how this company "automobile design manufacturing monopoly" fifty years ago.  

Lutz clearly admits to being some kind of an expert on how the modern auto industry works today, but don't you think it's strange he never mentions the key pioneer's name that originally created Detroit's Dependency on Design in the first place! Don't be fooled...Lutz knows all about what Harley Earl did in auto history, but very calculatingly plays dumb on camera when ever mentioning the fact sheet of Harley Earl, the founder of GM's, and Detroit's, Design Legacy. Sure, Lutz is just another foot soldier who is currently playing a big role in undermining the financial collapse of General Motors, America's greatest corporation of all time! Lutz purposely misleads and buries the artistic-engineering genius, Harley Earl, in an avalanche of hearsay [why mention the creator] because those are the orders he receives from GM's CEO, Rick Wagoner. Like Lutz, Wagoner plays the fool on this important American history and also never publicly dares mention any factual truths behind what makes the central universe of the modern global auto industry tick today: the Automobile Design Profession is the nucleolus behind the entire global industrial arena today. GM's finance guys and their attorneys clearly steer clear of ever mentioning how Earl's ingredients and/or the labyrinth this auto pioneer originated around design is the most intoxicatingly elaborate segment of auto building. 

What's the end game? Once the smoke clears from the bomb going off right now in Detroit's auto world, the financial GM administrators will have bankrupted this once great company! GM being broke will mean the musical chair game these treasury officers have been perpetuating for decades now is likely going to leave the American auto industry without much of a position in the global automotive design manufacturing game. 

Expand your awareness on this established "body of knowledge created by Harley Earl" for it's a far from the conventional misleading unprofessional hack GM's leading pencil pushers and their minions (yes, Bob Lutz is one of them) have put through the system and into circulation over the last forty odd years relating to the auto design manufacturing legacy of Harley Earl. All throughout the CAROFTHECENTURY.COM website, we clearly legitimize how and why Harley Earl originally set up and first founded the World's Automobile Design Legacy in America. So, where does all this historical material lead? Well, it's time the general American audience wake up and realize they have entirely been short changed on this major Americana business and art history. "By who" you might ask? Well, let's start at the top. Beginning after this auto pioneer's death in April, 1969, when at this time, GM's highest leaders started a con game of hiding this auto pioneer's giant historical milestones and business accomplishments. What was at stake? Controlling GM's purse strings. Basically, starting in the late 1950s, this company's Financial Department stripped the power from the GM Design team and quietly became the commanders of GM's future success or failure. Even today, and Detroit's slice of the pie has dwindled considerably, there is still a giant sized fortune at stake running GM. So, the last thing GM's current treasury office boys want people to understand is the fact behind how GM's Financial Department was playing second fiddle to the power of GM Design during the highly successful era of Detroit's past when General Motors was properly run and managed. 

Stranger than fiction, GM’s current top leaders still hide, deceive

 No wonder GM is capitulating so badly, the truth is finally coming to the fore whereby all the cockroaches are finally being fleshed out into the open as to why the company has been so poorly mismanaged over the years. subvert all sorts of corporate records from getting into the wrong hands, like one below, that tie Harley Earl to personally creating all GM’s most valuable and significant concept cars.