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<br>Among American car designers, the name Virgil Exner remains prominent nearly two decades since his death in 1973. More than most stylists, probably more than any of his contemporaries, Exner produced show cars bearing his personal stamp. Between 1951 and 1962, when he left the company, he successfully spun-off their ideas on numerous production models. It is generally conceded that by 1957 -- largely with design ideas evolved from his earlier show cars -- Exner's blend of extroverted innovation and classic-era hallmarks had the legs of everybody else in the industry, including Harley Earl's vaunted General Motors. Asked about his show cars by [writer Michael](https://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=writer%20Michael) Lamm in the early Seventies, Exner explained: "There was really only a single purpose in all of them, and that was to let the public know that Chrysler was thinking ahead as far as styling was concerned." But in contrast to the contemporary specials from General Motors, for example, Exner's cars were always built with production requirements in mind.<br> |
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<br>In my own conversations with Exner, he was almost wistful about this last point |
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