Re: Your Opinion Whether the New '57 Packard Vertical Grille Would Have Been a Marketing Hit?

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2009/12/29 19:24:14

On the Ford and GM cars you could slam the door and not hear the glass rattle inside the door cavity for the next 3 seconds. Chrysler may have had structrual rigidity, but they were stamped in inferior presses that were purchased from GM when they were through with them, and the company had a prelidicition for steel that liked to rust, and fast. I know too many veterans of Chrysler's body building efforts, and have heard their stories firsthand. I am really chagrined that a late 60s Chrysler B-body muscle car is worth as much, if not more than some '32-'34 Packard 12 cars, some as much as Duesenbergs. Those muscle cars were some of the most marginal vehicles to be built. Walter Chrysler learned and knew that the race was won by the fastest, and that included production time, which was always a paramount concern at Chrysler. That, and they were totally green at body engineering prior to 1955-57, having farmed that work out to Briggs until it became absolutely necessary to take that on themselves. Then "the engineering company", a term that does apply to engines and trasmissions and chassis' proved how poorly equipped they were to integrate all areas of engineering of the complete package.