Re: Executive script position

Posted by michael keller On 2009/2/15 20:08:53

I will check again if the car had an accident. The panel below the trunk lid (don't know the correct expression in English) is definitely the original part, so what kind of accident would damage both rear fenders but not the parts in between? (Hope you understand what I try to explain...)

To all of my knowledge, Clipper was indeed registered as a make of its own ("Packard-Clipper Division, Studebaker-Packard Corp."), but for 1956 only. Intended was to fill the gap between Studebaker and Packard without diluting the Packard name, hence my earlier remark.

If I'm right with this, it's also clear why 55th series Clippers wore a Packard script: They were just that: Packards.

History teaches that such manoeuvres in most cases fail because the public just ignores. This was the case with the Continental or the Thunderbird shortly later: Both were registered makes, but for the man in the street they still were Lincolns or Fords, respectively...