Guscha:
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Guscha wrote:
...I believe it looks and it indeed is lower due to its acute-angled A-pillars. Against the backdrop of its year of origin it really looks sporty. What a mixture: sporty, powerful and majestic - the car for a King!
I couldn't agree more!, except perhaps for adding a Twelve under the hood.
One other reason it might look lower is that in fact it is much longer than regular convertibles, with the 138 wheelbase.
Re: Hispano Suiza being Spanish... I guess you are right, though what can one think of a car's nationality when it was founded with spanish capital, swiss engineering, and had factories in Spain and France (though I believe I read that by the 30's production was more important in France than in Spain), but mainly that it was advertised and promoted in French, and with the majority of the bodies (just my guess based on observation) built by French carrosiers, like Saoutchik, Labourdette, Fernandez et Darrin, Franay, etc.? Same thing happens to me with Bugatti... italian owner, french factory...
Back to the Packard, I think Franay did a great job and still used (based on comparisson only and my guess, which could be wrong of course) Packard's grill, complete hood, and front fenders. Compared to Owen-Dynetto's post (great, by the way) of the Chapron car, that appears to be a more 'complex' bodywork, in the sense that it uses very little original Packard body parts (shortened grill and perhaps upper part of the hood, but I can't think of no more, as clearly hood sides and fenders were not Packard).
Thanks again for all the pics!
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