Ford Lecture Series: The Legacy of George Walker

The California Automobile Museum welcomes automotive historian and award-winning author Henry Dominguez for three fascinating presentations exploring the people, personalities, and design decisions that shaped the Ford Motor Company.

Drawing upon more than fifty years of research and interviews with members of the Ford family, designers, executives, and employees, Dominguez takes audiences beyond the familiar legends to reveal the human stories behind one of America’s most influential automobile companies.

In the second lecture of this series, meet the flamboyant design impresario who helped create the Ford automobiles of the fabulous 1950s.

George W. Walker was charming, ambitious, theatrical, and impossible to ignore. Known throughout the automobile industry as the “Cellini of Chrome,” Walker rose from independent design consultant to become Ford Motor Company’s first vice president of design.

His career placed him at the center of one of the most exciting periods in American automotive history. Walker and his talented design teams helped create…