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Solved: Wendax 1545 - A sports coupe design by Giovanni Michelotti
« on: March 26, 2015, 04:11:05 AM »
More elegant than yesterday's puzzle car.

For one point, please respond and identify the designer.
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2015, 02:43:37 AM »
Easy expert point
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2015, 08:47:53 PM »
German?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2015, 04:07:14 AM »
No
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2015, 09:57:02 AM »
The little cap over the windscreen (see the 1957 Chrysler cars) and the way in which the wings have been drawn (see Chrysler's original Valiant) suggest that Virgil Exner may have done this sketch.
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2015, 01:59:30 PM »
Not an Exner sketch
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2015, 02:42:18 PM »
Stutz concept?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2015, 02:57:25 PM »
No
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2015, 07:23:16 AM »
Is it a USA design?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2015, 07:30:30 AM »
No
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2015, 08:04:10 AM »
Italian?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2015, 10:10:25 AM »
Yes
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2015, 06:01:29 PM »
Ghia?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2015, 02:36:55 AM »
No
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2015, 08:18:12 AM »
This really perplexes me! I can't think of a single 1950s/1960s Italian designer who would have resorted to the gimmick of the little cap over the windscreen ( like it, but then I am a big fan of Exner's 1950s designs) - or to the similarly Exner-esque swoop over the rear wheel opening. I hope someone can solve this soon - I'm dying to know!  :D :D
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2015, 04:36:56 PM »
michelotti?
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Re: Wendax 1545
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2015, 04:41:38 PM »
Yes, as easy as that. It is a drawing by Giovanni Michelotti. I don't know which car this was supposed to be.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1545 - A sports coupe design by Giovanni Michelotti
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2015, 11:37:08 AM »
Blimey! Hard to imagine anything less Michelotti-like!  :D
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1545 - A sports coupe design by Giovanni Michelotti
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2015, 12:02:08 PM »
Quote from: richard cuyler on April 14, 2015, 11:37:08 AM
Blimey! Hard to imagine anything less Michelotti-like!  :D

Yes - I think I would have guessed Loewy!
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