Re: 1935 - Turning Point and What-Ifs
Posted by Mahoning63 On 2015/8/31 18:15:09
Too bad no American luxury car maker in the Sixties and Seventies attempted to bridge the gap between German functional and American comfort/convenience. The '61 Continental and '75 Seville probably got closest but neither hit the sweet spot that everyone has more or less headed towards.
Steve203 - I came to same conclusion you did re: Auburn. The 1937 Six would have been their play and maybe an Eight too, using 1935's 256 CID engine. Packard by then would have the 282 and could have started its interior trim at that year's richer CD level. Planning would have needed to have done a market study to see what Auburn's sales potential was. Sales had not been that great given that prices had long been in One Twenty's range:
1928 - 12,899
1929 - 23,509
1930 - 12,985
1931 - 34,228
1932 - 11,145
1933 - 5,038
1934 - 7,770
1935 - 6,316
1936 - 1,263
Packard would have needed to sell Auburns at Packard dealerships to given the project any chance. The mid-Thirties Auburn grill would have fit just fine in place of Packard's.
Here's a body style Packard would have needed to compete with the Buick 80 Club Sedan. I used the long front and rear doors from CD-138 and set the rear door termination back where the One Twenty is, and used the proposed 136" touring car's decklid. This forces a 134" wheelbase and 2" longer rear overhang, making this the odd man out in the line-up. There are many ways to skin the cat and this particular approach might have added needless cost. Needless cost, or better put, added cost of limited value was a no-no. I tried to stick with the same number of door sets, roofs, rear quarters and decklids that Packard had for the One Twenty program. This latest model adds another set of unique rear quarters. Getting all these parts fit in all these bodies would have been tough but Packard was good at it.
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Steve203 - I came to same conclusion you did re: Auburn. The 1937 Six would have been their play and maybe an Eight too, using 1935's 256 CID engine. Packard by then would have the 282 and could have started its interior trim at that year's richer CD level. Planning would have needed to have done a market study to see what Auburn's sales potential was. Sales had not been that great given that prices had long been in One Twenty's range:
1928 - 12,899
1929 - 23,509
1930 - 12,985
1931 - 34,228
1932 - 11,145
1933 - 5,038
1934 - 7,770
1935 - 6,316
1936 - 1,263
Packard would have needed to sell Auburns at Packard dealerships to given the project any chance. The mid-Thirties Auburn grill would have fit just fine in place of Packard's.
Here's a body style Packard would have needed to compete with the Buick 80 Club Sedan. I used the long front and rear doors from CD-138 and set the rear door termination back where the One Twenty is, and used the proposed 136" touring car's decklid. This forces a 134" wheelbase and 2" longer rear overhang, making this the odd man out in the line-up. There are many ways to skin the cat and this particular approach might have added needless cost. Needless cost, or better put, added cost of limited value was a no-no. I tried to stick with the same number of door sets, roofs, rear quarters and decklids that Packard had for the One Twenty program. This latest model adds another set of unique rear quarters. Getting all these parts fit in all these bodies would have been tough but Packard was good at it.
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