Re: What would a traditional Packard "Senior" have looked like in 1951?
Posted by Mahoning63 On 2017/8/17 16:49:29
Completely agree, Steve. Seems Ferry's problem wasn't that he copied GM, it was that he did't copy them completely!
Here are a few more cars. First is 122 wb convertible. For this and the tan/red hardtop shown earlier, Packard needed to take cost and/or content out sufficient to lower the price a few hundred dollars so that they could compete in between Buick's 50 and 70. In retrospect, Ferry should have brought body production in-house for the 24th Series because it would have been more cost efficient to set up operations with the new model changeover than to do mid-cycle. And he needed to bring production in-house to take cost out and manage the flexibility needed to get some of these more labor-intensive models out efficiently and with quality. Turning to Henney was the wrong way to go for the '53 limo.
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Here are a few more cars. First is 122 wb convertible. For this and the tan/red hardtop shown earlier, Packard needed to take cost and/or content out sufficient to lower the price a few hundred dollars so that they could compete in between Buick's 50 and 70. In retrospect, Ferry should have brought body production in-house for the 24th Series because it would have been more cost efficient to set up operations with the new model changeover than to do mid-cycle. And he needed to bring production in-house to take cost out and manage the flexibility needed to get some of these more labor-intensive models out efficiently and with quality. Turning to Henney was the wrong way to go for the '53 limo.
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