Re: High Belt Line?

Posted by Jim McDermaid On 2013/2/13 17:19:52

I quite like the styling of my 54 Cavalier. At the time I bought it, I was looking at having a 50's car because of the drivability to a distant event. When I saw the Packard for sale I was smitten. My other antique car is a 22 Model T Ford. I used to own steam cars which can easily beat the Packard in a race.

The Packard has a low windswept look as the front appears to tuck back slightly below the headlights giving the effect of speed. This is carried in the lines with the trim and fins at the back fender area. The side trim ads streaks of speed and wind.

The belt line is clean with the door handles all in that line and seems high compared to the 50 Chevy I drove as a kid. This also gives the appearance to me of a slightly chopped top. Even though it is not a convertible hard top look there is a lot of glass.

This Packard sits lower than the chevy did and the Skirts add more of the lowered look.

My car has the tinted windows option, the body is the Polar Blue with the dark blue (Meridian Blue) top and slight blue green tint in the windows effect, it looks like it's moving about 100 mph just sitting in the driveway.

I was at the auction that sold the Bat Mobile. It was actually a 1955 Lincoln concept car (that looked better to me than the Bat Bucket) and you can see how the lines flow into the cars of the period, and then we took a turn to ugly.

Jim