Re: A little Packard History from 1945

Posted by 58L8134 On 2017/2/21 9:11:00

Hi Wesley

Revivals of defunct makes are nothing new now, but Marshall Merkes may have been one of the first to announce such an effort for Duesenberg. It went nowhere.

The Plexi-Top maker must not have noticed the intense greenhouse effect created on sunny days. Imagine driving your Ford or Mercury convertible with the Plexi-Top in place to work on a cloudy morning only to return in the afternoon under hot, sunny weather for the drive home.

Grumman box vans were everywhere back then, the aluminum bodies were riveted flat sheets so damage wasn't much of a problem to repair.

Packard proudly introduced its new Free-Flow-Styled look.

Steve