All 7 Packard Concept Cars at One event!!

Posted by portlandon On 2009/7/17 22:02:52

Sept 12th & 13th 2009 Fairfield County Concours d' Elegance.

Packard - Concept Vehicles
Six Packard concept cars from the collection of Ralph Marano will be shown together for the first time at the Sunday, September 13, Concours d'Elegance. These rare cars, created for promotional display at nationwide automobile shows, served as prototypes for future models that were put into production or featured elements that appeared in later years.

Marano's "Dream Cars" which include:
The 1948 Vignale
The 1952 Pan American
The 1952 Macauley Coupe
The 1953 Balboa
The 1954 Panther
The 1955 Request

include all but one of the Packard experimental models. They represent the company's efforts to keep pace with the Big Three automakers in the postwar years and to celebrate the high standards of excellence and creative innovation that epitomized the Packard Motor Car Company.

Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899 and the last in 1958.

On October 1, 1954, Packard purchased Studebaker, creating the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

Studebaker-Packard pulled the Packard nameplate from the marketplace in 1959.


**Also, the Studebaker National Museum has agreed to deliver the Predictor.

For the first time ever, all 7 Packard concept vehicles will be at one location and displayed together.-(Hemmings Classic Car September '09 edition)http://www.fairfieldcountyconcours.com/exhibits.html

Could be a once in a lifetime experience!!!

Whose going to get some great pics??