Author Topic: SOLVED: FW #328: Edsel 2 seater sports car proposal by Rodell Smith, 9-1958  (Read 485 times)

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Please identify this sketch: Make? Type? Designer? Year?
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Re: FW #328
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2022, 03:55:00 AM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2022, 10:30:47 AM »
Edsel?
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Re: FW #328
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2022, 11:46:02 AM »
Yes

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2022, 09:48:54 AM »
Is this another Albrecht Graf von Goertz design?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2022, 10:56:08 AM »
Good idea, but isn't..

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2022, 11:35:52 AM »
Ford employee?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2022, 01:03:46 PM »
I don't know, if he was an Ford employee, but he worked for Ford

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2022, 01:10:24 PM »
Charles Balogh?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2022, 01:35:21 PM »
No

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2022, 01:39:17 PM »
Donald Reid?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2022, 03:58:55 PM »
Ken Spenser & Romeyn Hammond designed the SHRIKE

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2022, 04:03:06 PM »
....which led to the Edsel 196X by Bud Kaufman

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2022, 04:22:47 PM »
Donald Reid?
Ken Spenser & Romeyn Hammond designed the SHRIKE
....which led to the Edsel 196X by Bud Kaufman
3x No

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2022, 04:35:06 PM »
Rodell Smith?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2022, 04:02:03 AM »
Yes, Rodell Smith

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2022, 06:21:11 AM »
... 1958

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2022, 09:24:52 AM »
Yes, 1958.  Forgot about the year.

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2022, 11:26:07 AM »
Not 1958!

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2022, 11:55:21 AM »
There’s a print of this labeled 9-58.  Are you looking for 1957?

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Re: FW #328
« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2022, 12:18:52 PM »
No
Sorry, of course both of you, "hermanoto" and "marmer", are right. So both of you will earn one point! Yes, labelled 9-58
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