Elwood Engel

[1] Engel first joined General Motors as a student under Harley Earl's watchful eye at GM's school of design.

During World War II, Engel served four years in the U.S. Army as a mapmaker, in both the European and Pacific theaters of operation.

Although Walker's firm had Nash as an account, Engel worked on designs for farm equipment, women's shoes and household appliances.

However, when Walker obtained a contract with Ford Motor Company in 1947 (and dumped Nash), Engel and Oros went to work full-time designing automobiles.

Engel's team was instructed by Ford President Robert S. McNamara to add two more doors and two more seats to their roadster design - and that became the basis for the 1961 Lincoln Continental.

[citation needed] At Chrysler, Engel replaced chief stylist Virgil Exner, who had designed the successful "Forward Look" models of the latter 1950s.