Re: 1954 Packard Patrician Sportster
Posted by Mahoning63 On 2021/10/20 12:48:33
Don, glad you like the car. The 127 version would have needed a new roof and wide B-pillars so that the rear windows could drop straight down. The car I have floated has rear windows that would have rotated down like the 2-door hardtop, and clearance within the door's inner envelope would have been very tight, might not have worked at all.
I think Howard was describing how the Pacific and Convertible physically came together rather than suggesting that they weren't Seniors. Packard advertised them as Seniors and their pricing was similar to Patrician. They had Cavalier rather than Patrician side trim because they still had the old Clipper's rounded fender bulge. And they didn't sell well.
An alternative Pacific strategy would have made the 2-door hardtop and convertible Clipper Panamas only, with sore thumb fenders, and instead launched a 4-door Pacific pillared hardtop that looked like a sporty version of Patrician and gone after a younger up-and-coming market with intent of getting conquest sales.
Paul
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