Many will say Harley J. Earl never wrote the poetry (in a mid-1950s brochure displayed in its entirety further down at this section) nor did he ever have time to doodle any dreamy toys in motion renderings inside it. These are people who simply don't understand --- and probably never will --- anything about this man and his character and how he fluently changed our modern day society and culture. As amazing as it may sound, the most resistant in recognizing any of Harley Earl's achievements and/or milestones are the inhabitants of Detroit's auto world today. Mainly execs of GM and Ford's tangled webs are the ones who, for decades now, have had an axe to grind with this man's legacy of success. The American public is smart and already knows about the invidious comparisons made between the great cars Earl once design-engineered in Detroit's heyday versus the mediocre cars GM and Ford put on roadways these days. 

But first read an April, 2006 MOTOR TREND magazine editorial titled, Where Are the Dream Cars of the 21st Century, directly below, drilling down on how badly Detroit's lost its mojo-style and long-term vision. Like many Americans, MOTOR TREND editor, Arthur St. Antoine, longs for the cars of Tomorrowland Earl designed.

Harley Earl was a proud man and that's why he wrote about his personal "fifty million cars" milestone within the prose of The Look of Things (on pg. 10 below):

"Men there are, who would call the automotive stylist a dreamer - and dreamer he may be - if it is from dreams that fifty million cars can come...and if it is from dreams that sales leadership can come!"