Re: Hood Ornaments in '55 & '56

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/2/16 15:50:52

Build slip postwar is most often glued to the top of the glove box. And I believe the Packard brothers were long gone from the scene by the time the "bird" came into being.

This debate over Pelican or Cormorant has gone on for more 80+ years, no reason why it should subside now even though no information has come forward in decades. But you must admit that anatomicaly it's not an accurate likeness of a pelican. Cormorants were (are?) indigenous to the West Coast, look much more like the Packard "bird", and I like the story (apocryphal or not) that Earle Anthony, whose sway with the company was probably second-most only to the President, was a proponent of upgrading the lowly pelican which his Hollywood set found find a bit too down-scale for their haughty tastes.