Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Richard Caleal, 94, Who Helped Design Innovative ’49 Ford, Dies
Richard D. Caleal, a self-taught automotive designer who, working at his kitchen table, helped create the 1949 Ford — the compact, streamlined and hugely popular car credited with lifting the company out of its postwar financial slump — died last Saturday in West Bloomfield, Mich.

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