Solved -PJ349 - Nash Sports car proposal by Edmund Anderson's styling team

[Paul Jaray]

Please, respond below and share your knowledge of what this is, and who designed it.  

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[Ray B.]

The usual song (I must have it somewhere... but where?)

[Paul Jaray]

Believe me, I know you have!

[Oguerrerob]

Cadillac LaSalle II Sedan 1955

[Paul Jaray]

Not a Cadillac, not a Lasalle, not from 1955 and not a Sedan....
(BTW why did you chose the Sedan version?)

[Oguerrerob]

That's the tag the I have for the car. I thought that wasn't a Sedan but they named some cars as they want. I have a lot examples.

[fyreline]

I'm relatively sure that this is a design study for a (believe it or not)  - Nash!  I believe it's by Edmund Anderson . . . but let me know if that's not the right designer.

[Paul Jaray]

You are 100% right!
Well done! 

[Allemano]

 

[Paul Jaray]

Now, only the name is missing...it's written on the side and I know it's not readable...

[fyreline]

I believe I have a book with that drawing in it . . . I'll check tonight and see if the name is given or if it can be read.

[Otto Puzzell]

That artwork is seen in the background of more than one Nash studio photo. I've seen no indication of a name, nor even a direct link to Anderson, other than his proximity to the picture.

I'd bet even money Bill Flajole drew this.

[Paul Jaray]

Sorry for the late reply.
My source is pretty clear about and the logo on the car is a big 'A'.
BTW, the name of this car, written beside the logo (and erased in the pic...), is reported also in Allemano's source.

[Otto Puzzell]

Flajole was a consultant to Nash at the time, and this shares traits with his Forerunner, created in the period when this picture was taken (according to the book from which Allemano's picture came). The side cove and the windshield frame, especially, look much like his design.

Since Flajole's name didn't have any marketing cache (unlike Pininfarina) I don't suppose there was a need to credit him.

[Paul Jaray]

You know more than me about that, and I'll read again all I have about this car and,as a bonus, I'll post also the later version of this sketch. You might be right also because this design is not directly credited to Anderson as author in that book, where it's written that the real deisgner is not known, but as the chief of the styling department.

[Paul Jaray]

Ok, I read my source, and Flajole's name is not reported.
From this later sketch (1954) his influence is even more visible...but it's just a guess.

[fyreline]

Allow me to put in a vote for Bill Reddig as the artist . . . looking through Pat Foster's Nash Styling Sketchbook (where the subject car appears), his artwork appears more than any other when sports cars are the subject and the style is similar. In fact, the drawing Paul posted above is in fact by Reddig, not Flajole according to the book.  In any case, the actual subject car appears at least three times in the book and is listed as "artist unknown".  Could have been Andersen, Flajole, Reddig, Don Butler, Jack Garnier or even someone else.

The car name, however, is visible and mentioned.  It was called "Wisp".

[Paul Jaray]

..and that was the missing piece!
Here you are your point! 

[Otto Puzzell]

Ok, I read my source, and Flajole's name is not reported.
From this later sketch (1954) his influence is even more visible...but it's just a guess.

Jack Garnier did that second design.