Re: 1953/4 Caribbean 4-door hardtop sedan exploration
Posted by Mahoning63 On 2020/3/28 20:59:06
Fair enough. Interestingly, Packard's designers - who many times during the post-war era had been thwarted by Engineering in significant ways - did not want to do the wrapped windshield for '55, preferring the existing ones.
Please bear with me as I run through the other proposals. Here's a look at suggested '55 traditional cars knowing that the 149 sedan would have been extinct. Let's assume a few Henney bodies were left over from '54 and sold as '55 models with all of that year's updates including Utica V8, Twin-Ultramatic and integrated A/C.
Would Packard have bothered with its Gen 1 Torsion-Level for one year only? Quite possibly. The 5 year old body would have needed all the marketing help it could get and it would have been a good opportunity for the engineers to field test the new technology.
In looking at these three models it occurs to me that perhaps the 122 wb 4-door Clipper with vertical taillights could have been kept in the line-up, name and all, as the showroom cost leader and with Packard's lowest spec interior. The 2-door Clipper could have also been kept if it made financial sense. Were all this the case then maybe the series below could have been offered only with Patrician level interior trim and carried that name.
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Please bear with me as I run through the other proposals. Here's a look at suggested '55 traditional cars knowing that the 149 sedan would have been extinct. Let's assume a few Henney bodies were left over from '54 and sold as '55 models with all of that year's updates including Utica V8, Twin-Ultramatic and integrated A/C.
Would Packard have bothered with its Gen 1 Torsion-Level for one year only? Quite possibly. The 5 year old body would have needed all the marketing help it could get and it would have been a good opportunity for the engineers to field test the new technology.
In looking at these three models it occurs to me that perhaps the 122 wb 4-door Clipper with vertical taillights could have been kept in the line-up, name and all, as the showroom cost leader and with Packard's lowest spec interior. The 2-door Clipper could have also been kept if it made financial sense. Were all this the case then maybe the series below could have been offered only with Patrician level interior trim and carried that name.
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