acolds wrote:
good article about Predictor tells why windshield not repaired or replacedhttp://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2006/05/01/hmn_feature4.html[/quote]

If you find this Hemmings article of interest, then certainly the bigger and more detailed article that appeared in The Packard Comorant magazine regarding the Predictor history would also be of interest. This Packard Club publication reveals and interviews the one of the original men who built the scale model of Predictor and the black 1957 Four Hundred.

Regarding videos... The Packard Club has for many years had a video on the web site of the uncrating of the Predictor at the Packard Plant on East Grand Blvd. in Detroit after receipt from Ghia in Italy.

As for driving the one-of-a-kind Predictor out on public streets in traffic and through busy intersections... this as a very careless and extremely dangerous activity. Hardly the respect that the car deserves.

Regarding possible shortcomings of a dream concept car such as Predictor... This concept car was built in 90 days from a scale model. There was never the time, nor money to do all of refinements necessary to make Predictor on the level of a production vehicle (such as seat positioning, etc). Flippant critique of the car not meeting 90-percentile seating positions, etc. is certainly unfair. It was a miracle that it even got built and actually runs to this day. Most concept cars of that period by far bigger manufacturers never even ran! Something to think about with discussing the wonderful Packard Predictor.