Could-have-been #336 - Proposed Studebaker Hatchback Design for 1950

[Otto Puzzell]

For one point: Identify what this mock-up was meant to represent

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[Otto Puzzell]

Could have been (should have been?) a Rookie point.

Experts?

[sixtee5cuda]

1950 Tucker?

[Otto Puzzell]

More mainstream than Tucker

[Zerk]

Post-1941 LaSalle?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not a LaSalle

[Zerk]

This mockup seems very GM-like. It's only a guess, but is it an early postwar design study that was to be all-new in 1946? Maybe Pontiac?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir

[D-type]

Hudson Hornet replacement about 1954

[Otto Puzzell]

Not one of those.

[sixtee5cuda]

Was Harley Earl involved?

[Otto Puzzell]

Was Harley Earl involved?

I doubt it

[Zerk]

Was it to be a rear-engined project?

[RayTheRat]

Is it a GM styling clay proposal?

[Otto Puzzell]

Was it to be a rear-engined project?

No

[Otto Puzzell]

Is it a GM styling clay proposal?

No

[RayTheRat]

Made in USA?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes sir

[RayTheRat]

Studebaker?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes - locked for RayTheRat

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes - locked for RayTheRat

[RayTheRat]

Yeah.  I know.  I appreciate your patience.  I've gone thru more Stude websites, read more owner's stories and found more photos of prototypes that I thought imaginable.  But I haven't located that particular image.  However, in my own archives, I had the article that told the story of finding the "prototype graveyard in the woods" and the follow-up article that discussed some of the prototypes that could have ended up there.  Still, nothing definite, so I'll resort to SWAG techniques.  I think the clay model is part of the 1952 "Model N" project that led to the 1953 Loewy Stude.  There's one clay in the article that;s described as being "strangely out of sequence."  Photo attached.

The greenhouse and rear quarter are very similar to the puzzle photo.  They both seem to be 4-door concepts, which makes me wonder if a different "President" or replacement for the "Dictator" model was being considered. 

That's what I have for the moment...for what it's worth.

RtR

[Otto Puzzell]

The puzzle car is not a 4-door.

Lock continues.

[RayTheRat]

Go ahead and unlock it, Otto.  I've run outta places to check.

RtR

[Otto Puzzell]

OK...