'55 Clipper station wagon

Posted by kanadanmajava On 2013/2/10 12:22:10

My brother is currently visiting Portugal. He sent me some pictures from a car lot that he had found. There seems to be interesting bunch of old cars waiting for something to happen. I guess someone has saved them from a crusher.

But one of them is a Packard. At first I didn't notice what was wrong but then I realized that it is a station wagon and Packard didn't build any from that body style.



It is either a weird customized model or a coachbuilt by some European company. I thought that that rear part resembled '57 Mercury station wagon but after searching some pictures I couldn't find any car model that had similar shape.

The rear lights don't look like lights that might have used in cars in 50's but they might have been taken from a bus. Many European coachbuilders built busses after passenger car coachbuilding slowed down after WWII.

The car behind the Clipper and blocking the view is a Simca (or same car model built by Ford France).



Any ideas? I asked for more pictures from my brother but I don't know if he has time to visit there again.