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Solved - NEH 2773: Silver Bullet 2 by Virgil Exner Jr for League of Retired Auto Designers Show
« on: June 25, 2013, 07:46:27 AM »
What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2773
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 09:57:47 AM »
Any correlation to Studebaker?
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Re: NEH 2773
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2013, 11:08:55 AM »
Quote from: choppertrainee on June 25, 2013, 09:57:47 AM
Any correlation to Studebaker?

Only a very vague one; it's not a design for a Studebaker.
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Re: NEH 2773
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2013, 05:32:46 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2773
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2013, 06:14:22 AM »
Silver Bullet, electric car proposal by Virgil Exner Jr., submited to the League of Retired Automobile Designers' show at the Studebaker National Museum in 2010
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Re: NEH 2773
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2013, 06:20:59 AM »
Quote from: thewarlord on July 03, 2013, 06:14:22 AM
Silver Bullet, electric car proposal by Virgil Exner Jr., submited to the League of Retired Automobile Designers' show at the Studebaker National Museum in 2010

Exactly!

Unmodified picture, on which I see it does actually wear Studebaker badges; sorry choppertrainee!:

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Re: Solved - NEH 2773: Silver Bullet 2 by Virgil Exner Jr for Leagur of Retired Auto Designers Show
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2013, 07:02:32 AM »
He drew heavily on the Exner past - it looks like equal parts of his dad's sketch from 1948 for Studebaker, and his own design for the Selene II

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