Topic: Solved: PN #278 -- Svein Erling Lode's future car study, 1979

[pnegyesi]

Please tell me everything about this one-off for a point: builder, year, purpose are required for a point

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[olavr]

This car was built in Norway to an exhibition in 1979. A car study for the future. Initiative by the car magazine "BIL" and editor John Winding-Sørensen. Builder was italian Ermanno Martinuzzi (living in Norway),
designer of the car was Svein Erling Lode. The car appears to be ready to drive, but it had no running rear.

[pnegyesi]

Quite so, another point for you

[Paul Jaray]

I know at leat one of us who knows this car VERY well...

[Paul Jaray]

Should 'Martinuzzi' be part of the title as well?

[SeaLion]

Wow, this is MY design (I'm Svein Erling Lode) 
In 1979 there was a national design competition in Norway, which I won, and Ermanno Martinuzzi built it in steel. There was no scale drawings, just some perspective renderings (which I still have in my archives). The car was exhibited in Oslo at the car show Motor Action '79.
The car (which is actually just a mockup) still exists. There is no interior, it is just a rollable shell. The windows are black non-see-through plexiglass.

[Carnut]

Terrific!
But you didn't even get a point for identifying it!

[Allan L]

Good to "see" you here again!

[SeaLion]

My sketches from 1979. One of the ideas was to build in indicator lights in the wheels 

[oko94]

It's funny how your design is the exact opposite of current cars. Your prototype had small wheels, sharp angles, flat surfaces and huge glass area; nowadays it's all about big wheels, rounded shapes, surface excitement and windows so small you can barely see through them.