Re: '58 Lincoln-based Packard idea

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2011/8/1 18:57:21

Fascinating thought but no way Packard could have used the Lincoln body for 1958. For one thing the Packard factory was closed and the Lincoln body was too wide for the Studebaker assembly line.

However it might be someone will make one anyway, using a 58 59 or 6O Lincoln body, suitably reworked, with a Packard 374 and Ultramatic.

It would certainly cause a sensation at any Packard show or get together.

In 1957 58 59 and 6O expensive cars took a pasting in sales. The new compacts from the big 3,plus Rambler and Stude Lark set all the sales records. From this, I would argue that Packard was through no matter what they did.