Re: "The Classic Car", Summer 2013 issue
Posted by Tim Cole On 2013/6/15 21:56:31
Dear 58L8:
You're right.
For the benefit of everybody watching here are some pictures. The CCCA article states Dietrich did the 734 styling as well so I included the Victoria.
The Jordan hood looks suspiciously like the Dietrich Franklins. There is an old CCCA series "The Dietrich Story" but I lost my copies in a move. Those would probably indicate who Dietrich was doing consulting work for. Everybody copied the Waterhouse Blind Quarter Victoria which I think had a design patent on it because the blind quarter allowed for the disappearing top.
So I guess this is a "What came first: the chicken or the egg?" question. It's a possibilty because the Jordan plant was along the New York Central Mainline and Dietrich traveled between New York and Detroit on a regular basis.
The only thing that catch's my eye on the Packard is the A-pillar upper corner. If the angle was softened just a few degrees then my eye would move from rear to front the same way as Virgil Exner's "Forward Look". But it's a tough one because that A-Piilar is sort in a never never land. It's been made more extreme to lenghten the hood/cowl line and changing it might ruin the frontal effect. I'm sure Dietrich struggled with it. And of course in person it might not even be noticed.
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You're right.
For the benefit of everybody watching here are some pictures. The CCCA article states Dietrich did the 734 styling as well so I included the Victoria.
The Jordan hood looks suspiciously like the Dietrich Franklins. There is an old CCCA series "The Dietrich Story" but I lost my copies in a move. Those would probably indicate who Dietrich was doing consulting work for. Everybody copied the Waterhouse Blind Quarter Victoria which I think had a design patent on it because the blind quarter allowed for the disappearing top.
So I guess this is a "What came first: the chicken or the egg?" question. It's a possibilty because the Jordan plant was along the New York Central Mainline and Dietrich traveled between New York and Detroit on a regular basis.
The only thing that catch's my eye on the Packard is the A-pillar upper corner. If the angle was softened just a few degrees then my eye would move from rear to front the same way as Virgil Exner's "Forward Look". But it's a tough one because that A-Piilar is sort in a never never land. It's been made more extreme to lenghten the hood/cowl line and changing it might ruin the frontal effect. I'm sure Dietrich struggled with it. And of course in person it might not even be noticed.
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