Re: Hood Ornaments in '55 & '56

Posted by Allen Kahl On 2009/2/16 15:02:30

Well I have the seats out but have found no build sheet as of yet. Would they have been hidden else where. As to the cobbled up part, as I understand from the man I bought the car from(who I am still looking for BTW), he bought the car from the son of the original owner, who was a Packard employee. I will go out on a limb here and say that if the car was cobbled up, it is the best cobble job I have ever seen. I will keep looking though. Back to the original discussion. If the visual evidence is to be used the Packard hood ornament was A PELICAN. I do not think the Packard brothers would have called it anything else as that is what is in their "COAT OF ARMS" which is the badge on the cars. In addition the crest has the inscription underneath stating "A PELICAN IN HER PIETY" Somewhere down the road it got changed to a cormorant which probably came about by the fact that whoever they had casting the piece slenderizing the figure down so much that it began to resemble said bird.