Re: Synopsis of forces and events leading to '48-'50 styling

Posted by Mahoning63 On 2020/3/17 14:48:21

Wonderful synopsis Steve!!! You've captured all the major forces acting on the historic situation that Packard found itself in.

John Reinhart said that he and many other designers wanted to simply refine the Clipper with a theme he referred to as needle nose. Wonder if any sketches or pictures survived.

Why didn't pinch-penny Christopher figure out how to marry Clipper's dies to Packard's pre-war stamping presses, to inexpensively bring body production back in-house in 1945? The company invested a boatload in those presses for 1938, surely the equipment hadn't become obsolete 7 short years later. Did Packard let the expensive equipment sit outside? How would it have even been moved? Its hard to imagine it doing nothing more than staying right were it had always been.

Briggs should have been a seen as nothing more than a temporary arrangement.