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Puzzle #1706 - ca. 1955 / Carl Renner / Corvette
« on: August 08, 2010, 04:43:04 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 08:44:13 AM »
what a cool fast sketch!
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2010, 03:51:37 AM »
Just a bump before I go...
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2010, 04:42:58 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2010, 06:31:22 AM »
And, now the Pros
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2010, 01:26:25 PM »
Early Chevrolet Corvette proposal ?
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2010, 01:58:28 PM »
You're part-way home!
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2010, 05:46:12 PM »
It looks like a Ghia design. It's got several elements of what they did for Chrysler, both in the 1950's and 1960's.
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2010, 03:35:52 AM »
Not Ghia.
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2010, 03:55:53 AM »
Larry Shinoda sketch for the (Mako) Shark?
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2010, 04:12:42 AM »
The sketch style looks pretty much like Raymond Loewy's.
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2010, 04:22:40 AM »
Not him. This designer, while not completely unknown, didn't enjoy the celebrity of Loewy
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2010, 06:27:33 AM »
American design house?
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2010, 06:43:08 AM »
It's a Carl Renner 1955 Corvette concept.

EDIT: ... but I think that 1958 would be a more likely date. I have another one of him for 1958, quite the same style. Yet, Renner was working on the Corvette from 1952 on (at a time where it was known as "Project Opel"), and is credited by Chuck Jordan of a decisive influence on the initial design.
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2010, 07:19:55 AM »
The sketch obviousely dates from 1955. And it's a "XP 100"

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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2010, 09:12:26 AM »
You're quite right about 1955. I hadn't tried to find a larger picture to check the date.

XP-something is, I believe, the code name given to any Corvette project, like XP64 for the 1957 Corvette SS, the 1958 XP-700, or the 1961 XP-755 Mako Shark.
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Re: Puzzle #1706
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2010, 09:31:09 AM »
Ray is correct. Match, game and set!
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