Re: Your Opinion Whether the New '57 Packard Vertical Grille Would Have Been a Marketing Hit?
Posted by BH On 2010/1/5 18:44:13
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Don -
The 1957 Clipper proposal did have a more conventional horizontal grille:
Other styling elements of this clay were a bit more flamboyant - hence, controversial. However, there is more than one rendering that has the '57 Clipper looking more like some sort of "Batmobile", as seen on this page:
1957 and 1958 Packard Concept Cars
As such, the clay shown above is a bit more down to earth, but it probably could have been tempered a little further.
The Studebaker edition of the shared body/platform was even more restrained, but I don't have a pic.
BTW, in one of the Packard books, there is a pic of a clay done (prior to the facelift for the 55th Series), with a front-end and grille treatment that looks similar to the Facel-Vega, but it was rejected for production.
...could have been kept in the Senior body styles and kept the Clippers with a more conventional horizontal grille.
Don -
The 1957 Clipper proposal did have a more conventional horizontal grille:
Other styling elements of this clay were a bit more flamboyant - hence, controversial. However, there is more than one rendering that has the '57 Clipper looking more like some sort of "Batmobile", as seen on this page:
1957 and 1958 Packard Concept Cars
As such, the clay shown above is a bit more down to earth, but it probably could have been tempered a little further.
The Studebaker edition of the shared body/platform was even more restrained, but I don't have a pic.
BTW, in one of the Packard books, there is a pic of a clay done (prior to the facelift for the 55th Series), with a front-end and grille treatment that looks similar to the Facel-Vega, but it was rejected for production.
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