Re: Concept drawings

Posted by R Anderson On 2009/12/28 20:09:12

Interesting observations about Earl...although imo the '57 Packards as proposed would not have been truly competitive design-wise with Virgil Exner's exquisite Forward Look cars, much as we'd have liked them to be... they look heavy in the side view, not elegantly light and flowing like the Chryslers, and the weird "basket handle" on the fins does them no credit, whereas the fins on the Chryslers and DeSotos were a true work of art. The Packard tailights and bumper were but a caricature of the Chrysler design. The Edsel-like grille, which was resoundingly rejected by the buying public at the time, no matter how much it was trying to recapture lost Packard glory, doesn't quite work... A credible attempt, but no cigar in comparison with Exner's Magnum Opus, which was a design for the ages.