Re: North Korean Packard or on of those Russians?

Posted by 58L8134 On 2015/1/24 8:53:54

Hi Guscha

Always exceptions, in the case of the XR-400, "manufacture", of sorts..... Those one-off, speculation idea/dream/show cars pop up from various industry suppliers from time to time in hopes of drumming up more business. Budd was somewhat on the right track in the 1962-'63 timeframe: a sporty car of long hood/short deck proportions built on a mass-production compact car chassis....sound familiar?

But, somehow, an AMC 'Mustang' wasn't in the cards, though interesting to consider what might-have-been (with better styling!). Concurrent with this project, Abernethy had taken the AMC helm, quickly set about changing the direction from the dull, stolid 'Romney Ramblers' to a rather stretched thin, full-line competitor versus the Big Three. The upshot was diminishing their economy car reputation without fully being accepted as an equal to the Big Three, followed by decades of struggle to survive.

Steve