Re: A Rare Bathtub prototype with a dubious story or

Posted by Craig the Clipper Man On 2013/5/14 10:26:36

This is definitely a custom job and a good one, by the looks of it. I cannot see Packard ditching the side windows and adding a rumble seat in 1948. Might as well as running boards while you're at it. The belt line reminds me a bit of a Darrin design, though I know he would never add that chrome "spear" on the side. I'd ditch the fender skirts entirely. I think it would give the car a more sporty look that way.

Instead of a rumble seat that no one can use and no side windows, if I were designing this car, I would have kept the windows and utilized the space for the rumble seat for a power assisted top that would fold down into a space covered by an integrated metal cover that would allow the lines of the car to flow unobstructed by the bulge of most retracted convertible tops. I'd use the 1963 Thunderbird convertible as a model.

These are just personal musings, nothing serious. Overall, I kind of like the car. It certainly woiuld turn heads when it drove down the street ... assuming of course it drives!