Re: Ex-Packard Designers

Posted by Leeedy On 2014/8/3 16:38:11

Ahhh... but Brownlie's illustration does not depict a lower roof. Only the illusion of one. Again, that would have been an engineering hard point. If you look closely at Brownlie's illustration with you notice it merely has a smaller (shorter) rear backlite window. The difference from Black Bess is that Brownlie's design adds a heavy wide band of ripply chrome at the top edge of the rear window. All Black Bess does is move the quarter window forward, delete the wide ripply band of chrome and raise the height of the backlite rear glass. It does not change the height of the roofline at all. Just a common design illusion. I am certain the dimensions with the exception of the glass height at the rear were the same.

And yessss, I know right where Dixon is... couple more exits up the freeway-if one is headed toward San Francisco.

RE: the wrap-around windshield and dogleg created by the reverse-angle A-pillar, read my comments about how the Plainsman also originally had this feature.