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Puzzle #249 - Solved! Raymond Loewy BMW 507
« on: March 09, 2007, 03:57:30 AM »


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Re: Puzzle #249
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 06:33:11 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #249
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2007, 05:52:44 AM »
I think it is either an Opel GT or the 1957 Raymond Loewy BMW 507.  If I have to pick one I'll go for the Loewy BMW.

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Re: Puzzle #249
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2007, 06:06:17 AM »
not as extravagant as the Loraymo, but far ahead of its time. IŽd agree this is definitely the 507 done by Loewy.

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Re: Puzzle #249
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2007, 09:28:57 AM »
I think it is either an Opel GT or the 1957 Raymond Loewy BMW 507.  If I have to pick one I'll go for the Loewy BMW.

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SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2007, 09:09:44 AM »
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Re: What car #56
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2007, 09:23:29 AM »
Hi, that is a Raymond Loewy interpretation of a Bmw...

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Re: What car #56
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2007, 09:38:52 AM »
It’s no big secret that Raymond Loewy gave Albrecht Graf von Goertz his big break when Loewy arranged for his job at the Studebaker design studio. As the story goes, Goertz used that position to establish his own business in the 1950s, through which he met Max Hoffman and eventually came to design the BMW 507. Apparently, though, Loewy thought he could do Goertz one better with his own design for the 507, one that Pichon et Parat of Sens, France, built. That prototype still exists, on display in the photo at the Petersen, after Loewy donated it to the L.A. County Natural History Museum in 1962

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Re: What car #56
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2007, 09:47:19 AM »
There, I gave you a Loewy design (because you people kept going on about it in puzzle no. 34). Happy now? :)

It's a strange creature though... I must admit I prefer the original 507.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2007, 03:44:39 AM »
Like the Loraymo Lancia, that one is so well known to anyone interested in car design that it should have been in the rookie puzzles, maybe.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2007, 08:47:06 AM »
Well... I'm fairly interested in car design and had never seen neither. So I guess that depends on which books you've read.

It has, however, been posted before:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=1257.0
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Re: SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2007, 05:39:15 AM »
No worries - as you know, I sometimes make the same mistake.  ;)
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Re: SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2007, 10:32:36 AM »
Yeah, I know. So I'm not THAT sorry  ;D
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Re: SOLVED - What car #56 - 1957 Pichon-Parat BMW 507 by Raymond Loewy
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2007, 04:34:21 AM »
Well... I'm fairly interested in car design and had never seen neither. So I guess that depends on which books you've read.


You can see it and read about it in Raymond Loewy's book "Design industriel". Published in France but not only there I suppose.
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Re: Puzzle #249 - Solved! Raymond Loewy BMW 507
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2009, 03:28:45 AM »
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