met or it wouldn't be profitable. Henry II then wandered over to the seating buck, a mockup of the Mustang interior, and tried out the rear seat. "He was a big man sitting in the rear seat," said Oros. "He said, ‘Joe, I believe that we need a little more headroom.’ He swung back and hit his head. "I said, ‘Yes, sir, we can do that.’ And he said, ‘Can you do that without losing the design?’ and I said, ‘Yes, sir, we’ll do that,’ and that was it. It worked." You didn't want to say no to the guy with his name on the building, according to Oros. In 2009, at the celebration of the Mustang's 45th anniversary of, Oros, then 92, said: Retirement Upon his retirement in 1975, Joe Oros and his wife, Betty Oros, moved to Santa Barbara, California, became very active in the Romanian-American community in Southern California, serving for a few years (1988–1991) as the chairman of the New Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church and Cultural center in Los Angeles. See also Ford Mustang See Also: Photo of Joe Oros Betty Thatcher Oros References American automobile designers Ford designers 2012 deaths American people of Hungarian descent American people of Romanian descent Artists from Cleveland 1916 births