SOLVED: FW #251: BMW Coupé Bertone sketch, early 50's

[fromwien]

Please identify this sketch: Make? Coachbuilder? Decade?

[fromwien]

Experts?

[Zerk]

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

[fromwien]

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

[gilescooperuk]

BMW looks similar to the 508 roadster?

[fromwien]

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

[gilescooperuk]

Oops fat fingers

[fromwien]

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

[fromwien]

A quick point for the Professionals?

[Carnut]

Design by Michelotti?

[fromwien]

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

[Carnut]

Allemano?

[fromwien]

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

[Carnut]

Vignale?

[fromwien]

No

[Carnut]

Moretti?

[fromwien]

No, better known

[Carnut]

Ghia-Aigle?

[fromwien]

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

[sichel]

Bertone

[fromwien]

That's it! One more point for you

[Carnut]

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]

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]

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]

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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