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Title: Dead End Concept #174 - Kaiser-Frazer by Brooks Stevens
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 01, 2012, 03:25:10 AM
For 1 point, identify the vehicle this illustration was meant to portend, and the person who drew it.

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Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 09, 2012, 03:42:43 AM
Experts
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 17, 2012, 08:13:00 AM
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Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: mymokke on March 17, 2012, 11:51:06 PM
Reminds me of a Frazer, but the scale seems to point toward a smaller car ..... any connection?
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 18, 2012, 04:01:53 AM
Yes - locked for you
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: mymokke on March 20, 2012, 08:28:14 PM
I think this is one of a few ideas the Kaiser / Frazer company had for a compact "every man" car.
Some thought given to FWD or Rear engined as well as fibre composite bodies. None materialized leaving only the more conventional Henry J.
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 21, 2012, 03:44:23 AM
You've left one half of the puzzle question unanswered. You can have one more go at it, then I'm opening it up again.
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: mymokke on March 28, 2012, 12:40:41 AM
Could this be a Darrin concept drawing for what would have become the K-85? Originally a Graham Paige property?
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 28, 2012, 04:24:39 AM
The half of the answer you've yet to identify is called out in the puzzle post itself.

I'll lock for another 24 hours.
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Wendax on March 30, 2012, 04:40:39 AM
Still locked?
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 30, 2012, 05:22:45 AM
24 hours have passed - have at it!
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Wendax on March 30, 2012, 05:23:58 AM
Kaiser-Frazer Henry J concept car by Brooks Stevens

Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 30, 2012, 05:26:17 AM
Voilà
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174 - Kaiser-Frazer by Brooks Stevens
Post by: Ray B. on March 30, 2012, 05:59:38 AM
Damn! I had it but I went out to get me a baguette!
I am not sure that it would have been called Henry J at the time, but it sure was a Brooks Stevens 1947 proposal for a small Kaiser-Frazer sedan.
Title: Re: Dead End Concept #174 - Kaiser-Frazer by Brooks Stevens
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 30, 2012, 06:14:35 AM
Yep - I think ol' Henry decided to put his name on the eventual Henry J a bit later.
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