Author Topic: SOLVED: FW #251: BMW Coupé Bertone sketch, early 50's (Read 1743 times)

fromwien · « **on:** October 24, 2021, 03:36:49 PM »

Please identify this sketch: Make? Coachbuilder? Decade?

fromwien · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2021, 04:04:05 PM »

Experts?

Zerk · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2021, 05:04:35 AM »

Perhaps Brooks Stevens' preliminary sketch for the Willys Aero update?

fromwien · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2021, 05:07:12 AM »

Sorry no. Not Brooks Stevens, not an Willys Aero update

gilescooperuk · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2021, 11:29:31 AM »

BMW looks similar to the 508 roadster?

fromwien · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2021, 11:44:49 AM »

BMW is a very good guess! But, sorry, I don't know about a 508 roadster? I think, you meant 507?

gilescooperuk · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2021, 11:47:20 AM »

Oops fat fingers

fromwien · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2021, 12:05:51 PM »

No worry at all, please try to find the coachbuilder and approx. date of this BMW Coupé sketch

fromwien · « **Reply #8 on:** December 01, 2021, 11:58:17 AM »

A quick point for the Professionals?

Carnut · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2021, 05:34:56 PM »

Design by Michelotti?

fromwien · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2021, 05:44:44 PM »

Might be, and I strongly believe, but all I know definitely is the coachbuilder company, the sketch was made for

Carnut · « **Reply #11 on:** December 02, 2021, 09:45:32 AM »

Allemano?

fromwien · « **Reply #12 on:** December 02, 2021, 10:57:25 AM »

Not Allemano, but a well-known coachbuilder Giovanni Michelotti worked for..

Carnut · « **Reply #13 on:** December 02, 2021, 01:41:13 PM »

Vignale?

fromwien · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2021, 02:41:09 PM »

Carnut · « **Reply #15 on:** December 03, 2021, 06:11:40 AM »

Moretti?

fromwien · « **Reply #16 on:** December 03, 2021, 06:37:51 AM »

No, better known

Carnut · « **Reply #17 on:** December 03, 2021, 08:23:17 AM »

Ghia-Aigle?

fromwien · « **Reply #18 on:** December 03, 2021, 08:46:27 AM »

Far earlier in the alphabet. Michelotti worked there during the first years of the 50's

sichel · « **Reply #19 on:** December 03, 2021, 09:16:44 AM »

Bertone

fromwien · « **Reply #20 on:** December 03, 2021, 11:02:32 AM »

That's it! One more point for you

Carnut · « **Reply #21 on:** December 03, 2021, 02:23:01 PM »

I didn't know he worked at Bertone, although I'm not surprised as he seemed to work just about everywhere..
Strange it doesn't mention Bertone in the Fondazione Negri book "Giovanni Michelotti - una matita libera" though..

fromwien · « **Reply #22 on:** December 03, 2021, 02:50:59 PM »

Michelotti took up work (about 1950-1953) for Bertone, while the coachbuilding-world changed completely with the presentation of the new Fiat 1400 with its self-supporting bodywork. In 1952 Franco Scaglione followed Giovanni Michelotti at Bertone.

fromwien · « **Reply #23 on:** December 03, 2021, 03:03:44 PM »

I have to add, that, during this partnership with Bertone, Michelotti always worked as a freelance-designer, not employed by Bertone. This may be the reason, why there is nothing mentioned about the Bertone-partnership in the Michelotti Negri book.
I don't want to reveal too much within this statement. I think, during the next years, the Michelotti-Bertone-partnership will find a resurrection at 'AutoPuzzles'

Wendax · « **Reply #24 on:** December 03, 2021, 03:30:41 PM »

Quote from: fromwien on December 03, 2021, 02:50:59 PM

Michelotti took up work (about 1950-1953) for Bertone, while the coachbuilding-world changed completely with the presentation of the new Fiat 1400 with its self-supporting bodywork. In 1952 Franco Scaglione followed Giovanni Michelotti at Bertone.

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