Albrecht von Goertz

His elder brother Eberhard died in 1951, and while Albrecht did not technically inherit the honorific [citation needed], he began to call himself "The Count," and is often referred to that way.

He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he worked at a car wash and in a factory making aircraft engines.

After leaving the army, he drove the Paragon to New York City and, while driving it, he accidentally encountered Raymond Loewy, the famous car designer.

Loewy invited Goertz to his office, sent him to college to learn about design, and later gave him a job at the Studebaker studio in Indiana.

[citation needed] However, he was employed as a consultant to Nissan – visiting the factory intermittently over a limited period, mainly to instruct in full-size clay modelling.