Re: Interesting 41 120 listed on Hemmings
Posted by 58L8134 On 2015/10/17 10:25:33
Hi Paul
Those panel broughams truly were the end of a society era and the attendant proper livery coach to travel in. "Blockheaded" likely would fit our description of such blue-nose folks these day, think the old "Bringing Up Father" comic strip Maggie and Jigs. They couldn't bring themselves to give up the style and social class distinction inherent in their old horse-drawn panel brougham. Both those society doyens and their formal liveries were anachronisms in the rapidly changing world on the brink of world war.
Your '63 Park Avenue coupe work-up is very close in size and concept to it's would-have-been contemporary Buick Riviera. It may well be what FWD mechanical prototypes for the '67 Eldorado looked like running around in open-road durability trials. Years ago, companies ran prototypes on the public highways just as they do today, sometimes wearing modified sheet metal of current models as disguise. Today we see them in zebra or camo sheeting to cover the latest styling. Personally, I liked the old method, it was a test for the auto savvy to pick out their modified proportions as clue to being a prototype.
Steve
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Those panel broughams truly were the end of a society era and the attendant proper livery coach to travel in. "Blockheaded" likely would fit our description of such blue-nose folks these day, think the old "Bringing Up Father" comic strip Maggie and Jigs. They couldn't bring themselves to give up the style and social class distinction inherent in their old horse-drawn panel brougham. Both those society doyens and their formal liveries were anachronisms in the rapidly changing world on the brink of world war.
Your '63 Park Avenue coupe work-up is very close in size and concept to it's would-have-been contemporary Buick Riviera. It may well be what FWD mechanical prototypes for the '67 Eldorado looked like running around in open-road durability trials. Years ago, companies ran prototypes on the public highways just as they do today, sometimes wearing modified sheet metal of current models as disguise. Today we see them in zebra or camo sheeting to cover the latest styling. Personally, I liked the old method, it was a test for the auto savvy to pick out their modified proportions as clue to being a prototype.
Steve
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