Re: Are 57 and 58 Packards really Packards

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2009/9/11 21:54:27

Eric wrote:
"I would have thought it would have been easier to do a mild restyle on the '56 Packards and sell them as '57s, but wasn't the narrow assembly line of Studebaker the reasoning behind going to a Studebaker body"?

Everone in the industry, incoluing those at S-P knew that '56 was the last year Packard could sell cars off of that body shell ("Mr. highpockets") The entire industry was going longer and lower, beginning with General Motors' 1953-54 line up, and culminating with the 1957 Chrysler line up, and no matter what you did to that 1951 body shell it was going to look hopelessly out of date in that year of rapid change.