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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2012, 03:31:18 AM »
Could have been (should have been?) a Rookie point.

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2012, 09:07:10 AM »
1950 Tucker?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2012, 10:37:05 AM »
More mainstream than Tucker
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2012, 11:27:30 AM »
Post-1941 LaSalle?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2012, 12:52:40 PM »
Not a LaSalle
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2012, 03:27:41 PM »
This mockup seems very GM-like. It's only a guess, but is it an early postwar design study that was to be all-new in 1946? Maybe Pontiac?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2012, 03:29:59 PM »
No sir
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2012, 04:49:37 PM »
Hudson Hornet replacement about 1954
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2012, 03:54:31 AM »
Not one of those.
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2012, 10:25:53 AM »
Was Harley Earl involved?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2012, 03:22:09 PM »
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2012, 03:41:03 PM »
Was it to be a rear-engined project?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2012, 04:25:33 PM »
Is it a GM styling clay proposal?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2012, 03:29:28 AM »
Was it to be a rear-engined project?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2012, 03:29:45 AM »
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2012, 03:54:43 AM »
Made in USA?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2012, 04:16:48 AM »
Yes sir
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2012, 04:27:00 AM »
Studebaker?

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2012, 04:27:47 AM »
Yes - locked for RayTheRat
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2012, 03:57:06 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2012, 11:27:18 PM »
Yeah.  I know.  I appreciate your patience.  I've gone thru more Stude websites, read more owner's stories and found more photos of prototypes that I thought imaginable.  But I haven't located that particular image.  However, in my own archives, I had the article that told the story of finding the "prototype graveyard in the woods" and the follow-up article that discussed some of the prototypes that could have ended up there.  Still, nothing definite, so I'll resort to SWAG techniques.  I think the clay model is part of the 1952 "Model N" project that led to the 1953 Loewy Stude.  There's one clay in the article that;s described as being "strangely out of sequence."  Photo attached.

The greenhouse and rear quarter are very similar to the puzzle photo.  They both seem to be 4-door concepts, which makes me wonder if a different "President" or replacement for the "Dictator" model was being considered. 

That's what I have for the moment...for what it's worth.

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2012, 03:33:20 AM »
The puzzle car is not a 4-door.

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2012, 10:19:04 PM »
Go ahead and unlock it, Otto.  I've run outta places to check.

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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2012, 03:34:02 AM »
OK... :-\
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