While recently rooting around in Ford's image archives, we ran across a batch of concept car photos and renderings dating to the 1950s and 1960s that came with no contextual information or, worse, inaccurate labels. What struck us, upon deeper investigation, was that many of the concept cars in the photos were designed by Alex Tremulis, a man who is well known to most collector car enthusiasts, but more for his work with Cord and Tucker than for his time at Ford.
Hired away from Kaiser-Frazer by Elwood Engel in 1952, Tremulis first went to work in the Mercury studio, but within a year moved to Gil Spear's Advanced Studio. Tremulis would head that studio from 1954 to 1956 and gain a reputation around Ford as an unruly and almost anarchic force, unable to be controlled by his superiors. His studio was taken away from him and he was later assigned to the Thunderbird and Ford pre-production studios, moved commonly viewed as demotions meant to keep Tremulis in line. He ultimately left Ford in 1962.
Image Credit: Ford Motor Company
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