Re: History Revised Again

Posted by Mahoning63 On 2013/3/23 20:35:35

Attempt at a Packard version of Mark II. Moved the greenhouse back, thinned the C-pillars, extended the wheelbase 4 inches to 130, ditched the trunk hump and worked in a grill, motif and cormorant. Carryover stampings might have included the front fenders, hood, rear quarters (trimmed from coupe), backlight and windhshield. Maybe the coupe's front doors could have been trimmed to get to the shorter sedan door. New rear door inner/outers, decklid and longer roof would have been needed. Overall a much better appearance for roughly the same $9M that would have gone into converting the standard Lincoln body shell into a Packard as had been proposed. Am thinking the arrangement might not have been possible until 1958 when Mk II went out of production. Can just hear the Deuce... "Go ahead, give'm the tooling, was headed for the scrap yard anyway, didn't do us much good." Maybe Packard could have negotiated to buy the Continental's entire assembly operations since it was likely to be scuttled too. The biggest problem was powertrain, Utical being closed by then. Someone on this forum some time ago had advocated a V12 based on the Studebaker V8.

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