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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2012, 10:07:38 PM »
Is there an Exner connection?
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2012, 04:30:39 AM »
Exner was part of the design team
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2012, 10:00:08 AM »
Sometimes it's the simplest things that are good clues . . . in this case, the number of letters on the rear deck led me to think it had to be a make with a LOT of letters in it's name, such as "Studebaker". Now, having said that. I am having the same search dilemma as Ray. All of that just means this is a great puzzle - we kind of know what we're looking for, we just can"t find it (yet). I guess I have to ask, although I think I already know what the answer will be . . . seeing as it's a Studebaker, is there any Raymond Loewy involvement in this particular design?
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2012, 03:18:56 PM »
No more or less Loewy input than any other Studebaker styling models of a similar vintage, as near as I can determine.
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #29 on: October 29, 2012, 08:58:29 PM »
Could this one have doubled up...like a scale model for the 1947 Studebaker Champion kustom by Albrecht Goertz?
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2012, 05:17:43 AM »
Not a custom; I don't think Goertz had anything to do with it.

This a s proposal for a production Studebaker, but this configuration didn't make into production.
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #31 on: October 31, 2012, 11:42:00 AM »
I would describe it as a late 1940s mock-up, not full size, that forecasted the 1950-51 bullet-nose Studebakers.  Probably a Robert Bourke design under the direction of Raymond Loewy...
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2012, 12:15:28 PM »
Sure - but what is different about this one, versus other mock-ups from the same company and time?
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #33 on: October 31, 2012, 05:20:59 PM »
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Sure - but what is different about this one, versus other mock-ups from the same company and time?


Well, it's a fastback like the GM Sedanettes, but I don't think that's it . . . . it also appears to be a hatchback, and that's pretty significant even if Kaiser was thinking along the same lines. I think the integrated rear bumper and tail lights are pretty forward-thinking, as well. Also no "A" pillar to speak of, and it looks as if it could have been a hardtop although it's hard to tell if that's supposed to be a "B" pillar or not from this angle. Lots of little things that make it "different" from the numerous Studebaker styling clays we all CAN find . . . good job by you turning up this one, I haven't been able to find anything  specific on it yet.
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Re: Could-have-been Puzzle #336
« Reply #34 on: November 01, 2012, 04:34:50 AM »
Quote from: fyreline on October 31, 2012, 05:20:59 PM
. . . . it also appears to be a hatchback

That's the missing piece.

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