Trophy Life: How GM’s XP-21 Firebird I Arrived atop the Daytona 500’s Coveted Harley J. Earl Award

– Legendary car designer Harley J. Earl led a charmed life. A Stanford dropout, Earl was famously discovered by a Cadillac executive while working with his father in the family’s coachwork shop building custom vehicles for the Hollywood elite. The first president of design at General Motors, Earl accomplished many things: the Buick Y-Job, the […]