This is a recreation of a speech that John McElroy gave at the Global Leadership Conference in October, 2026. The GLC, which is organized by the Detroit Section of the SAE, is attended by some of the top leaders in the auto industry and is strictly off the record. But the GLC Committee urged John to recreate the speech and post it publicly. The theme is a call to action to safeguard the American auto industry.
Great presentation. It was all interesting. I didn’t realize how quickly the ’55 Chevy and Chevy II were developed. It makes sense that the ChevyII/Nova was developed quickly as an answer to the Falcon which far outsold Corvair. It was developed impressively quickly, and was a decent car, for the time. I see a lot of Chevy IIs/Novas at car shows, most with V8s. I suspect a lot of them originally had 4s and 6s.