Joe Oros

And for a long time, Halderman didn't get the credit he deserved because he really is where that original – sketch, whatever you want to call it, came from.

And so I know Joe Oros was obviously a key player, the head of the design studio at the time.

But really, the guy that birthed Mustang was Gail Halderman, really was.

But it was Hal Sperlich.

I'll say, was 17 minutes wrong stuff?

What it said was, well, the Mustang was drawn by David Asch.

And I happen to know the exact story of what happened from Joe Oros, who was Gail Haldeman's best bud.

Joe was the studio chief.

The new Ford Thunderbird, even though it's still going to be a four-seater, is a really beautiful car.

The so-called bullet-nosed Thunderbird or the bullet car, which was designed by Joe Oros and the 61 Continental.

This was the result of an internal design debate.

Joe Oros and another designer named Elwood Engel had both come up with designs for the Thunderbird.

They both have slab sides, but Joe Oros has had sort of a bullet front and Elwood Engel's design had just essentially a squared off front.

And Joe Oros won the design contest essentially for the Thunderbird, and they were going to shelve the Elwood Engel design completely.

But Robert McNamara at this point does the one and only constructive thing he will ever do in his entire life, which is he looks at Elwood Engel's design.

He says, that's actually pretty good.