Ford Design Department, Concept & Show Cars, 1932-1961 is ready to ship to you. It’s 399 pages, hardcover coffee table sized, has almost 900 photos and features over 100 cars and more than 150 individual designers, clay modelers and engineers. There are hundreds of photos from Ford’s Design Department archives shown here for the first time.
The Lincoln-Zephyr, the first Continental, the retractables, the Thunderbird, experimental Mercury’s, the Mark II, Ford’s proposed answer to GM’s Motorama, the Quicksilver (’60 Ford) and the ’61 Lincoln, to name just a few, are all covered in this book.
This 200,000 word text tells not only the story of Ford’s concept and show cars, how they came to be, and what happened to them, it also tells the story of Ford’s Design Department and the various personalities and changes involved from it’s beginning up trough the George Walker years. The photos themselves tell the story of the cars in detail and clearly demonstrate how they influenced production Fords, Lincolns, Mercurys, and Edsels. Because we came to believe, while writing this book, that the designers were as interesting as the cars they designed, we profiled them and their careers.
You’ll also read about the rivalries and how they affected design, about corporate spying, about how Lincoln was almost terminated because the sales disaster of the ’58 Lincoln became, and much more.
We think you’ll discover a lot if you didn’t know about Ford’s design effort, and you’ll come away with a new-found respect and appreciation for Edsel and William Clay Ford, father and son, who guided Ford’s design heritage for almost 60 years and the individual designers and clay modelers who created Ford’s special cars.
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