Re: unusual '56 Color "Flamingo"

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/2/10 16:45:45

Bearing on the question about "other colors", I refer you to a 10 or 12 page article by Ed Cunningham who worked in Packard's Art & Color section of Styling between 1952 and the end in 1956. His recollections are in The Packard Club's The Packard Cormorant, No. 89 (Winter, 1997-1998).

Though he doesn't name any specific colors, this quote was interesting to me: .....fully trimmed production cars.....were then used for the evaluation of exterior colors. This was easily accomplished since we used nitrocellulose lacquer applied from small pressure pots. We generally painted up to a half-dozen cars in each color category, so the final show could consist of as many as fifty or more specially painted vehicles. These cars were sent out to the field to the normal distribution channels, and ultimately sold to customers.

From what I've read, this exactly the same method that resulted in the 1954 Carnation and Amethyst cars (50 built).