Re: Clippers at the Motor Muster.

Posted by 58L8134 On 2015/7/6 6:50:37

Hi Paul

The overall concept of integrating Packard onto a BoF Mercury-Lincoln-Packard platform, as you've shown here, had a good chance of being the avenue for Packard to continue. It has the proportions and carries off the Predictor styling very affectively. Quite a handsome work-up, if well executed, would have been a good post-S-P continuance.

Someone posited that to experience the still-born '57 Packards to a degree, one need only drive a '59-'60 Mercury Park Lane. Nance's brief time at the head of the M-E-L Division may have had more effect on those cars, then in development, than is generally known.

"Sharing with Olds and Buick was an important element of Cadillac's financial success."

Although GM kept those numbers close, the overall benefit to Cadillac from platform sharing shouldn't be underestimated. That concept seemed to have been largely lost on both Ford and Chrysler management when developing Lincolns and Imperials in those years.

Steve