Re: 1958 Packard Starlight/Caribbean

Posted by HH56 On 2018/10/6 11:22:55

Better looking that what was produced IMO. Aside from money, wasn't part of the big picture and ultimate problem in consolidation being the Stude line could not accommodate any wider bodies than what they had. Supposedly forced into what they did produce, could they have added body width and still used narrow frames or how would that have been overcome.

Even though it was a few years later I vaguely remember the marketing hoopla of the "wide track" 59 Pontiacs supposedly being so much more stable than the previous models. Would that have been something additional Packard would have had to overcome along with all the other problems if they had wider bodies but narrow frames? They had several unkind reviews with the looks of the 22-23 wider (fat) bodies on essentially the same earlier narrow frames.