She's been doing that for nearly 30 years, and she is credited with transforming the auto show models you'll see at the upcoming North American International Auto Show into product specialists.Things have come a long way from the days of the book's cover girl, in a sequined gown with mermaid tail, perched atop a Plymouth Barracuda at the 1963 Detroit Auto Show.If you had cars there with nobody, it wouldn't be an auto show," says Meade.In 1981, , but soon they were bidding for auto show business.In the mid-'80s, when Krevsky urged her staffers to use their brains as well as their beauty to tout vehicle attributes, car execs took notice.