While cross-town rival Henri Ford was building those basic black model T, and eventually his update model A cars, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., General Motors president saw the company's future in providing style, comfort, color in an ongoing succession of models. Sloan broke design away from the engineering department, and in 1927 created the Art and Color Section of General Motors, with 34-year-old Harley Earl .in charge of the styling of all the company's cars, a position he would hold until he retired in 1959.
Earl is the designer of the first concept car: The Buick Y-Job

É de Earl o desenho do primeiro carro-conceito: o Buick Y-Job de 1938