Re: Packard & Hudson proximity
Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2013/2/12 22:47:55
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Mahoning63 wrote:
Am starting to conclude that Packard might have been able to save itself in early 1956 after all. Not with the expensive "'57 Program" or a Lincoln body shell but with a careful clean-up of the design it already had... Packard may have only needed a few things: new front fenders, hood and traditional Packard or Predictor grill with hidden headlamps, a Predictor-style roof but rounded a bit more, and an uplifted and more squared decklid..
I agree with this completely. Packard couldn't afford an "all-new" '57, and note that GM didn't bother to do anything with the '56 Chevy in '57 except to gussy it up. "Black Bess" had it come to fruition would have been a last gasp. Also, Packard needed to spend some of the R&D money on better marketing, to dealers and the public, to sell the technology and style they already had.
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Tim Cole on 2013/2/12 20:42:43
About the Lincoln. Henry Ford was an extremely vindictive individual bordering on insane.
Henry held his bitter grudges to the very end. There was no Lincoln hearse available for his funeral, and there was no way the family could let Henry be carted to his final rest in a Cadillac... he went in a Packard.
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