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	Harley Earl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		And, as the more expensive cars of that time were usually sold as chassis, drive-train, fenders, radiator, and cowling to be given a body by a specialized coachbuilding firm, it was the first car of that sort which was designed body and all by a professional in a motor firm.
		This was the Le Sabre (later a production car), the gimmick of which was its extreme lowness, by having the carburetor and air cleaner taken off the top of the engine and put alongside the cylinder heads.
		His catchphrase was, "My name is Harley Earl, and I've come back to sell you a Buick." In print advertisements, and on TV, the company's cars were shown with Earl's trademark fedora on the hood with the accompanying caption "Harley Earl was here," and it was called "the company where Harley Earl hung his hat."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harley_J._Earl (572 words)

	Corvette: 1953-1962
		Harley Earl was a tall, nattily dressed young man when one of the Fisher brothers (founders of Fisher Body, GM’s body division) discovered him working at Don Lee’s California Cadillac distributorship, designing custom bodies for the cars bought by the Hollywood crowd.
		Harley Earl arranged for the Alembic I to be shown to a group of GM officials--it was carried by elevator to the styling auditorium of the GM research building.
		Harley Earl’s original idea, dating back a year or more before the plaster mockup was for a car that would be simple and inexpensive enough to allow it to be sold for the price of a normal Chevy sedan or even less.
	www.lacar.com /lenfrank/newpage.htm (3191 words)

	Muscle Shoals Region, AACA - Harley Earl
		Earl was invited to stay on to work on the 1928 Cadillac, then he returned to California.
		Earl began to organize a centralized styling staff in May 1927, and by late January, the Art and Colour Section had fifty men.
		Earl and his new styling department were underway and would, eventually, dominate the history of automotive design.
	local.aaca.org /muscleshoals/news_earl.html (1321 words)

	Coachbult.com - Harley Earl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Earl reshaped the cowl and hood to form a horizontal plane from the windshield to the radiator, a flowing silhouette seen a full decade later on the 1930 Cadillac V-16.
		Earl was a personal friend of many early movie "greats and used a folding director's chair for many years when sitting with his design-room staff and even wore jodhpurs, the riding pants seen on many a silent movie director.
		Harley Earl was GM's chief stylist for 31 years, and left behind a design legacy of classic chrome, two-tone paint, tail fins, hardtops and wrap around windshields as well as a staff which grew from 50 to over 1150 people along the way.
	www.coachbuilt.com /des/e/earl/earl.htm (4390 words)

	TV ACRES: Advertising Mascots - Harley J. Earl (General Motors/Buick)
		Harley Earl, and I've come back to build you great car." In another spot, Earl declares "Once upon a time, I designed the cars that defined an entire era of American style.
		Earl's father J.W. Earl, a former lumberjack had moved his family from Michigan to the California in 1889 to build and repair horse-drawn carriages and wagons.
		Harley Earl, who was GM's chief stylist for 31 years, died from a stroke on April 10, 1969 in Palm Beach, Florida.
	www.tvacres.com /admascots_harley_earle.htm (450 words)

	- History of Harley Earl
		Earl's mother was originally from California and was the daughter of a civil dignitary.
		By the age of 30 Harley Earl was able to boast of wining and dining with the biggest celebrities of the time.
		Earl founded the GM Design and Styling Department in 1927 and by the time he retired in 1958, it had grown from a staff of 50 to 1,100.
	www.idavette.net /HistFact/earl.htm (720 words)

	Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harley came from a Presbyterian family; he was first elected to Parliament in 1688.
		Harley was speaker of the House of Commons from 1701 to 1705 and secretary of state from 1704 to 1708.
		During this period Harley, along with John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Treasurer Sidney Godolphin, dominated the government of Queen Anne (reigned 1702–14) and directed the war against the French (War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–14).
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Harley/Harley.html (565 words)

	Corvettes of Lancaster - Upcoming Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harley Earl loved sports cars, and returning GI's after World War II were bringing home tiny yet fast MGs and Jaguars.
		Harley Earl was born November 22, 1893 in California.
		By age of 30 Harley Earl was wining and dining with some of the biggest celebrities of the time.
	www.corvettesoflancaster.com /article.htm (1552 words)

	National Corvette Museum - Hall of Fame [Harley Earl]
		Harley Earl is the father of the Corvette.
		Among Earl's most memorable designs are the Chevy Nomad, the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, all of the early 1950s Buicks and of course, the Corvette.
		Earl's legacy, however is the Corvette which will live on as a testimony to his vision and his talent.
	www.corvettemuseum.com /library-archives/hof/earl.shtml (420 words)

	BIO: HARLEY EARL-GM KING OF STYLE
		Earl Automobile Works constructed custom luxury cars for stars of the movie industry, and after short stints at Stanford and USC in 1919, Harley Earl became chief designer for Don Lee Coach & Body Works, a company that had bought his father's automotive operation.
		In 1926, Earl was invited to Detroit as a consultant to design the new car and the result was an early "first" for the young coach builder: the 1927 LaSalle was the first assembly-line auto to be designed by a "stylist" rather than by engineers.
		From that time on, Earl was on a mercurial rise that saw him and his crew of young designers produce hit after hit and change the course and structure of the auto world.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/writers/bhagin/1999/fs9919.html (906 words)

	Just Who Was Harley Earl?
		Earl introduced modeling clay to make full-scale mock-ups of cars, molding the clay and then viewing changes; the process was easy and inexpensive.
		Earl's first concept car (called a "dream car" at the time) was the 1938 Buick Y-Job, which Earl himself drove.
		Still, consumers took to them, and Earl's better innovations continued to find their way into the automobile, such as two-tone paint, the four-headlight system, and most notably, the one-piece, wrap-around windshield.
	hnn.us /articles/1145.html (750 words)

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		Harley Earl was born in Hollywood, California in November of 1893 — a fitting birthplace for a larger-than-life man whose vision, sense of style, and showmanship would revolutionize the auto industry and forever change America's notions about the automobile.
		Earl's arrival at GM began an era that would have incalculable influence on the way cars are designed.
		Harley Earl's spectacular and influential career was filled with innovations and milestones.
	www.roadcompanion.ca /edito/mag/pages/_cumaghtm0006.asp?lang=ce&month=200308&magid=32318 (474 words)

	IDSA -- About ID
		Earl attended the University of Southern California in 1912 and studied engineering at Stanford University from 1914 to 1917.
		Earl's talents were soon recognized by Larry Fisher, Cadillac Division president, and he was sent to Detroit in 1925, where he designed the first car designed by a stylist, the 1927 LaSalle, which was a huge sales success.
		Earl pioneered in the process of building full-scale clay models and in dozens of innovative designs including the hardtop convertible, wrap-around windshields, two-tone paint, heavy chrome plating, and tailfins.
	new.idsa.org /webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=236&z=60 (316 words)

	Harley Earl
		Lee insisted that young Harley remain as general manager, "doing the designing and run the body plant for him." The busines of supplying coachbuilt bodies and reconstruction work, in the early 1920s, to the luxury car trade was lucrative and the Lee-Earl partnership prospered.
		His enthusiasm for Earl's success with luxury cars eventually prompted Larry Fisher, president of Cadillac, to phone Don Lee and request that Harley Earl be sent to Detroit for consultation.
		Earl was a tall and imposing figure, always dressed to the height of fashion.
	www.brophy.com /eodweb/htmls/designers/hd91_2.htm (687 words)

	Dianne Elizabeth's Family History
		Lady Brilliana Harley was celebrated for her gallant defense of Brompton Castle, during the civil wars, when invested, in 1643, by rebels, whom she forced to raise the siege after seven weeks of unavailing hostility.
		Harley had a miraculous escape from assassination, having been stabbed with a pen-knife by the Marquess of Guiscard, then under examination before a committee of the Privy Council at Whitehall.
		Edward, Second Earl of Oxford, devoted himself much to Literature; and the country is much indebted to him for the celebrated collection so well known as the Harleian Miscellany, purchased by parliament from the Countess in 1754, after the Earl's death, and deposited in the British Museum.
	www.dianneelizabeth.com /Surname/Harley/earl_of_oxford.html (1492 words)

	The Cadillac of Cadillacs : Monterey County Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Earl’s stylistic inventions became so deeply ingrained into automotive engineering so quickly that today they are second nature to all Americans, regardless of their affinity for automobiles.
		Richard Earl, who says he has spent 10,000 hours researching the legacy of his grandfather—and feels that GM has let his grandfather’s bold tradition of innovation slip away—contends Boyer’s and Earl’s participation on this staff was a sacred, if quiet, accomplishment.
		For his part, Richard Earl would like to see her hold onto her Cadillac until the untold stories of Harley Earl truly circulate and the significance sets in that the car was built for a patriotic purpose by the country’s foremost design mind.
	www.montereycountyweekly.com /issues/Issue.08-18-2005/cover/Article.cover_story_1 (1504 words)

	"My name's Harley Earl, and I've come back... to sell you a Buick" by T. L. Stone
		Earl's office was to be accessible by all GM divisions, and Sloan told him that he could expect to have a staff of fifty in a year's time.
		Harley Earl was convinced that cars could be designed to sit lower to the road without sacrificing head room (which was important back when men wore hats).
		Harley Earl deserves to be remembered but lets remember him for who he was and what he stood for, not by misleading the public into believing that the world's greatest car designer was resposnisble for any part of that design disaster known as a Rendevous!
	www.kudzumonthly.com /kudzu/nov02/HarleyEarl.html (4965 words)

	GM resurrects legendary Harley Earl to sell Buicks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harley Earl began studies at Stanford University, but decided instead to leave the university and study design with his father at Earl Automotive Works, which designed custom cars for the biggest movie stars of the 1920s.
		Earl had his stylists create a prototype with a white body and red interior and reserved a room at the GM Proving Grounds at Milford.
		Harley Earl was the first to use chrome on cars, which boosted the used-car market because the cars retained their good looks longer.
	info.detnews.com /joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=376 (1819 words)

	HARLEY EARL'S ONE-OFF 1920 CADILLAC LIMO
		Well, in addition to a raft of unusual features, it was designed and built as a one-off custom-bodied car by the legendary Harley Earl nearly 7 years before he went to work for GM, where he later became one of the first and probably the most significant American automobile “designer”; of the 20th century.
		Young Harley was interested in the family business from an early age and worked with his father throughout high school and college.
		Earl is that his grandfather, though certainly a flashy fellow always in the limelight, did not seek that attention or become arrogant or jaded.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2005/01/30/017549.html (1783 words)

	Harley Earl, Father of the Corvette - Corvette Action Center
		In 1937, Earl changed the name of his Art and Color Section to the "Style Section." One of the ways Earl helped show his models and creations was by two types of design methods.
		When Earl retired from GM in 1959, he left behind a legacy of stlying cues that included the use of chrome, two tone paint, tail fins, hardtops and wrap around windshields.
		For those in the know, Harley Earl is generally regarded as the “Father of the Corvette.” Earl had made a name for himself at GM by setting trends in automotive style.
	www.corvetteactioncenter.com /history/earl.html (662 words)

	Harley Earl, father of the 'dream' car
		In 1889 the senior Earl moved his family to the west coast and became a coach maker, building carriages, wagons, and racing sulkies.
		Earl was lured to Detroit and styling of the LaSalle was removed from the engineering department and put in the hands of a new design department headed up by Earl.
		During the 1930s Earl continued to refine the LaSalle and Cadillac but one of his most famous designs of the era was the Buick "Y Job," widely recognized as the first "concept" car.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=101&category=people (1305 words)

	Why the Y-Job?
		Harley Earl had the fortune of being the son of J.W. Earl, a coach and wagon builder since 1899.
		J.W. Earl's first horse-drawn wagons were sold to local Mexican farmers who used them in their agricultural work in the "valley of smoke" as the Indians called it.
		And so by 1937 Harley Earl, his credentials established, decided to create a "concept car" to test the waters of public opinion and try out some new details and elements as well as gizmos of the most modern automotive design.
	www.prewarbuick.com /id377.htm (1038 words)

	Buick Turns Ads to the Past - The Car Connection
		Earl literally plays a ghost in these somewhat creepy ads, one of which has Earl talking to dead golf greats we might think are Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Sam Snead, watching Tiger Woods in a Bagger Vance-type moment.
		Harley Earl lived from 1893 to 1969, and has gone down in the history books as one of the most important figures in automotive design.
		One of Harley's personal favorites was the original LeSabre, which he kept for himself, and he was known to have a special affection for Buick.
	www.thecarconnection.com /index.asp?article=5284&pf=1 (1127 words)

	May-05
		Harley Earl was born in 1893 in Hollywood, California, and lived there until he left to spend two years at Stanford, and subsequently went to work for his father at Earl's Automobile Works.
		Earl quickly set up A and C in an open format, where all of the different GM marques were designed in the same area, separated only by fl boards, giving the car designers a sense of motivation and energy in playing off each other's designs.
		Harley Earl retired in December of 1958, following 33 years of changing the world of automotive de-sign and overseeing some of the greatest designs in automotive history.
	www.southernwheels.com /May-05.htm (1417 words)

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