Re: Packard Monte Carlo

Posted by 58L8134 On 2014/12/27 8:50:44

Hi Guscha

Incongruity of the roof design truly is a stylistic mismatch. As you've probably known, Macauley's Phantom started life as a '41 Darrin fitted with the coupe de ville roof in place of the folding cabriolet top. It was wonderfully elegant in that form.

But, it became the armature on which future styling explorations were tried, leading to the 22nd-23rd Series production styling. The top was only area left untouched, looks very out of context in its final version.

Personally, I wish Ed Macauley had kept the Darrin unmodified, picked a 20th Series Clipper Super two door off the assembly line, worked their styling "magic" on it.

Steve