Re: Why no Packard in a "Packard"?

Posted by HH56 On 2012/5/27 13:11:47

Think it still all goes back to a conservative & frugal management. Conservative, in that they brought out the 22 - 23 series when others were starting to go low and longer. Frugal in that styling wanted 51s to have more glass but mgt said metal was cheap and glass wasn't.

Their mantra of "Packard styling evolves" so one could buy this years car and not be afraid it would be out of style next year maybe haunted them. The "radical" change for 51 -- hard to say since it replaced something pretty long in the tooth which had pretty much stopped selling. Maybe they went back to the mantra in the 51-4 facelifts. As to that style being radical, maybe if one considers the 51s boxy. Others didn't do much boxy until 2-3 years later so maybe too much ahead of the time. Another of the hindsight "what if's".