1958 Packard Starlight/Caribbean

Posted by John McCall and Mitch Parker On 2016/1/30 15:41:00
In an effort to "stir the pot" on this particular forum, I have attached my rendering of a conceptual 1958 Packard Caribbean that could have easily been based on the tooling of the companion Starlight hardtop. I personally think the hardtop was a good try on the part of Duncan McRae--faced with no money and little time. If there had been more of both, S-P might have done well with something like this...at least to get buyers into the showrooms.

The most disliked feature on the 58 line, with the exception of the Hawk, was the "pod like" dual headlamps. In my concept, I have made the fender bulge extend past the front door, tapering and finally fading into the sheetmetal. I think this would have really improved the move to dual headlamps, giving the headlamps a more purposeful styling cue.

What do you think?

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