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Solved - NEH 1614: Ghia styling sketch for Volvo P1800
« on: February 29, 2012, 08:09:39 AM »
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Re: NEH 1614
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2012, 07:37:52 PM »
Exner/Ghia proposal for the Volvo P1800?
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Re: NEH 1614
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 06:38:55 AM »
Quote from: richard cuyler on March 03, 2012, 07:37:52 PM
Exner/Ghia proposal for the Volvo P1800?

It is a sketch for the Volvo P1800, yes, but not by Exner.
Ghia were mentioned although not quite sure of their involvement.
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Re: NEH 1614
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2012, 10:29:23 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on March 04, 2012, 06:38:55 AM
Quote from: richard cuyler on March 03, 2012, 07:37:52 PM
Exner/Ghia proposal for the Volvo P1800?

It is a sketch for the Volvo P1800, yes, but not by Exner.
Ghia were mentioned although not quite sure of their involvement.
There are two other names I'm looking for.
Locked for you for 24 hours to see if you can find them.


Actually I had misunderstood.
This is the Ghia proposal although I don't know about Exner being involved?  Perhaps he was..
Anyway, you've given me what I asked for so this puzzle is solved!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1614: Ghia styling sketch for Volvo P1800
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2012, 11:37:11 AM »
Thanks, Carnut. The sketch looks like one of Exner's, I think his sketchwork had definite 'signature'. This was a pure guess, though, based on the shape of the car and the fact that V.E. Jr did the P1800 design.
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Re: Solved - NEH 1614: Ghia styling sketch for Volvo P1800
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2012, 02:23:17 PM »
I wondered when I saw the three pictures of varying styling proposals on one of the Volvo history pages stating they were "Some of the sketches made by Ghia, Frua and Pelle Petterson" . . . I thought perhaps it had been misinterpreted that all three men did all of the proposals, rather than each of them being done by one of them. In any case Ghia appears to be the correct author of the quiz photo car, so all is well.  I didn't see a mention of Virgil Exner, but he had enough interaction with Ghia that nothing's out of the question.

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Re: Solved - NEH 1614: Ghia styling sketch for Volvo P1800
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2012, 02:34:20 PM »
Afaik the  sketch was done by Pelle Petterson (son of a Volvo engineer) while he was working at Frua.
It seems Ghia owned Frua at the time & between them they "tweaked" Pelle's design into the final product
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