Re: 1938 Sport Sedan What-If

Posted by Mahoning63 On 2011/10/16 11:32:25

Thanks Steve. The styling and proportions were laid out pretty clearly by Dietrich years earlier. The only stumbling block was an enabler to get the height down. FWD was out. Either a trans hump or an independent rear were the only options left.

Certainly the new design direction cascaded down to the lower priced models would have made GM's intro of the 1940 C-bodies a non-event at EGB. Nor would there have been the mad scramble to do the Clipper. With the torch handed to a hot new breed of Seniors & Juniors well before the war's ramp up, next task would have been to focus on an automatic transmission. Wonder how far along Packard was in 1940.

Paul