Solved - NEH 1119: Proposed Lightburn Saab sports car by Gordon Bedson

[mekubb]

A Swedish connection ? Hmmm... I don't know any particular Swedish designers, so how about a proposal for a Saab ?

[ropat53]

Looks like an open Triumph Italia, but you said it's not Italian

[Carnut]

Looks like an open Triumph Italia, but you said it's not Italian

It's not Italian, no, and neither is it a Triumph!

A Swedish connection ? Hmmm... I don't know any particular Swedish designers, so how about a proposal for a Saab ?

Saab is the Swedish involvement..

[4popoid]

I think this might be the proposed Australian Lightburn-Saab Sports, designed by Gordon Bedson, from about 1960.  I don't think that it ever got beyond the prototype stage.

[mekubb]

I seems that I put 4popoid on the right track, because that would have been my answer too.... 

[Carnut]

I think this might be the proposed Australian Lightburn-Saab Sports, designed by Gordon Bedson, from about 1960.  I don't think that it ever got beyond the prototype stage.

That's right, it is.
The car as proposed here was never built, but a Lightburn-Saab was built and believe me they should have stuck to the original:

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This has been a puzzle of mine before but without the information that it was done by Gordon Bedson; I've therefore merged it and added his name to the title.

[Carnut]

Another sketch of this car, maybe by Gordon Bedson too, I don't know: