Re: SOME PHOTOS

Posted by BH On 2007/3/8 1:47:58

BigKev -

I don't believe you'll ever find a bona fide photo from 1952 of the silver Packard fastback coupe that bears the "pininfarina" script.

Reason is that car was never built by Packard.

However, Carl Schneider, of Eureka, CA, found and purchased a set of Pininfarina renderings for this car at the R?tromobile show in Paris, France (Europe's answer to Pebble Beach?) back in the early 1990s. He later commisioned a fabricator to buid this fastback coupe (dubbed the "Parisian"), plus two other concepts that Packard never went built.

I understand that a limited run of just 20 models of the Pininfarina/Parisian in 1:43 scale die-cast was also produced back in 2005.