Re: Ex-Packard Designers

Posted by HH56 On 2014/7/18 8:42:09

It is surprising that the same person did such remarkably different cars. I think he also had a large hand in other well received Ford products. I seem to recall reading that Reinhart wanted to lower the beltline of the Packards and was shot down by engineering and management-- something about the extra glass that would be needed as being too expensive??

I don't think he was ever a Packard guy but Brooks Stevens was another designer that got a lot of bang for very few bucks.

Teague gets his due credit and certainly worth them but didn't an outside industrial design firm come up with the actual 55 front end facelift with Teague doing some refinements and then the 56 changes.

It does seem that the GM and Earl's group gets the large share of styling credit -- no matter which company might have built the car. I think Teague lamented in an interview that GM would throw more engineering talent and styling money at designing a door than other companys could spend on an entire car.