Commando that never was

Harley Earl, the former General Motors styling chief, is credited with saying, “A picture says a 1000 words, but a clay model car is worth a 1000 pictures.” Ron Konopka of Harper Woods, Mich., is one of those people who created a thousand pictures as a design studio clay modeler at Chrysler Corp., American Motors and General Motors.

Konopka retains an undated model of a Jeep Commando that was proposed but never produced. “I was told at the time I got