According to historian Douglas Brinkley, “Henry Ford II distrusted Lee Iacocca. In 1975, he had even authorized $1.5 million of the company’s money to conduct an investigation of the president ...

The GT40, Born of Ford’s Feud The Ford GT40 has great bloodlines as one of the most successful endurance-racing cars of the 1960s, and it’s rare. Now, one is coming up for sale in California.

At 82 years old, Lee Iacocca is a seasoned individual with a firm handshake and solid conviction, as whet-stoned sharp as he was when he sold Henry Ford II on the idea to build a sporty, four ...

Lee A. Iacocca, the visionary automaker who ran the Ford Motor Company and then the Chrysler Corporation and came to personify Detroit as the dream factory of America’s postwar love affair with ...

His clash with Lee Iacocca was amplified over the years. He fired Iacocca as Ford president in 1978, only to see him take the helm at Chrysler Corp. and challenge his former boss` style.

Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant’s son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, died Tuesday. He was ...

Lee Iacocca, the father of the Ford Mustang and Chrysler's savior in the 1980s, died in his Bel-Air area home in California at the age of 94. ... Henry Ford II stepped in and gave Iacocca the boot.

When McNamara left Ford, Henry Ford II made a young and ambitious Ford marketing executive, Lee Iacocca, head of the Ford Division and ultimately a Ford vice president.

Lee Iacocca, the auto executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford’s lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in ...

Two days later, on April 17, 1964, Lee Iacocca and Henry Ford II unveiled the car at the New York World's Fair. "Walt Disney cut the ribbon for us," Iacocca noted afterward.

Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca, two titans of corporate America, had a rocky relationship that shaped the industry in the 1970s and 80s.