Re: What a shame

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2014/2/7 9:49:18

I generally agree with Al about the car and the styling, it's not far removed from and consistent with the general style of the era and had some nice styling cues from Packard's past, and a rather potent Ryan Falconer V-12 engine. Whether the venture ever had a chance of commercial success or not, and I think not, he certainly didn't help his cause any by antagonizing the Packard fraternity by his actions, his choice to exhibit the car in Cleveland rather than at the 1999 Centennial where he might have found support and possibly future customers, but more so by his harassment of the hobby clubs and suppliers via his threats to sue over trademark issues and I suspect this is the cause for some of the residual harsh feeling about the venture.