my block is orange?

[Aeroman]

The designer of the 1949 Ford has always been in contention. Four different designers claim it for their own: George Walker, Bob Koto, Richard Caleal and Robert Bourke. General consensus is that Caleal gets most of the credit with the others were involved in varying degrees. See: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1949-ford4.htm

[Corsairdeluxe]

Auto design...I represented the carpet product promotion activity for a large synthetic carpet fiber company. I made a product presentation to the Cadillac design center in Detroit. George Moon was the head designer. My idea was to use patterned carpet as a design element instead of the plush they all used at the time. They were all very polite and non committal in the presentation. Afterwards, Mr. Moon told me, "We consider the carpets function to be covering up the junk the assembly workers leave on the floorboards".

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

That's a better response than hearing later that something was rejected because we didn't think of it first in house.

Remember also that the styliish mid 1950's Lincoln was not approved for production as it should have been because a senior Ford Motor Co. engineer felt he was "not consulted" on a different project the way he felt he should have been.  That's why the 1955 Ford Motor Company lineup didn't get a new Lincoln body in 1955 like it should have, and got it in 1956 instead.