Re: Clippers at the Motor Muster.
Posted by Mahoning63 On 2015/6/26 19:10:34
Steve203 - thanks for the education, never looked at it that way. Makes sense.
Steve - I didn't mean to dent the Nance last ditch plan that you proposed to build upon, it certainly could have bridged the gap for Packard in what turned out to be a very competitive 1957 model year. I did take a quick look at vehicle heights. The '56 Lincoln was 60", which am guessing the '57 continued in hardtop form. The '57 Merc and '58 Lincoln were both 56.5". The '58 T-Bird was a super low 52.5" which would have made the Continental Mk III quite the looker.
Came across a nice '60 Lincoln Mk V image, couldn't help but develop a crush on it. And it got me to thinking... what if the '58 Packard did indeed go to Wixom against all rational logic, the shenanigan behavior in Lincoln planning using it as the "stuckee" that gave McPherson his volume car while keeping Lincoln out of the whole deal. And to divorce Lincoln completely from the project the planners would have even convinced him to use the "way out there" Square 'Bird design on the Packard instead of Lincoln, pointing out that it was almost a dead ringer for what Packard had come up with independently. Schmidt, happy to see a glimmer of hope for Packard and his design, would have embraced the plan while carefully fighting to keep his design elements in tact but with only partial success, preserving the '57 Program's front and insisting the side scallops be removed but losing the battle at the rear and with the body side contours flowing into it.
The net result might have been a car that inadvertanly stumbled upon success, the front and rear both sporting generally harmoneous, delicate chrome elements of disctinctive and somewhat mysterious design. To be honest, I never warmed to the cathedral taillights grafted onto the Predictor show car and '57 Packard proposal. What worked so wonderfully in '55-56 somehow got lost in translation.
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Steve - I didn't mean to dent the Nance last ditch plan that you proposed to build upon, it certainly could have bridged the gap for Packard in what turned out to be a very competitive 1957 model year. I did take a quick look at vehicle heights. The '56 Lincoln was 60", which am guessing the '57 continued in hardtop form. The '57 Merc and '58 Lincoln were both 56.5". The '58 T-Bird was a super low 52.5" which would have made the Continental Mk III quite the looker.
Came across a nice '60 Lincoln Mk V image, couldn't help but develop a crush on it. And it got me to thinking... what if the '58 Packard did indeed go to Wixom against all rational logic, the shenanigan behavior in Lincoln planning using it as the "stuckee" that gave McPherson his volume car while keeping Lincoln out of the whole deal. And to divorce Lincoln completely from the project the planners would have even convinced him to use the "way out there" Square 'Bird design on the Packard instead of Lincoln, pointing out that it was almost a dead ringer for what Packard had come up with independently. Schmidt, happy to see a glimmer of hope for Packard and his design, would have embraced the plan while carefully fighting to keep his design elements in tact but with only partial success, preserving the '57 Program's front and insisting the side scallops be removed but losing the battle at the rear and with the body side contours flowing into it.
The net result might have been a car that inadvertanly stumbled upon success, the front and rear both sporting generally harmoneous, delicate chrome elements of disctinctive and somewhat mysterious design. To be honest, I never warmed to the cathedral taillights grafted onto the Predictor show car and '57 Packard proposal. What worked so wonderfully in '55-56 somehow got lost in translation.
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