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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [lemko] by bhill2
Jun 03, 2009 (11:41 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 03, 2009 11:36 am)

Rats! You beat me by about 1 minute in pointing out this pathetic adaption of quad headlights. Congratulations, Lemko.
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [lemko] by stephen987
Jun 03, 2009 (12:07 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 03, 2009 11:36 am)

'58 Packard Caribbean?
 
ETA: My bad, there was no Caribbean that year, and it's not a Hawk.
 
ETA: duh, just noticed the "1958" front plate. Feeling dumb right now. . .
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [lemko] by andre1969
Jun 03, 2009 (2:15 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 03, 2009 11:36 am)

Y'know, if it wasn't for those stuck-on headlights, that '58 Packard wouldn't be a bad looking car. In those colors, it sort of looks like a 3/4 scale '58 DeSoto Adventurer.
 
I can't remember now, but did Packard even use model names for these cars, or were they just "Packards"? I know Studebaker called their version of that hardtop the Starlight.
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [stephen987] by lemko
Jun 03, 2009 (2:27 pm)
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Replying to: stephen987 (Jun 03, 2009 12:07 pm)

Actually, there was a 1958 Packard Hawk - an incredibly ugly mutation of the rather attractive Studebaker Hawk:
 
 
 
It reminds me of a catfish.
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Since we're doing ugly... by bumpy
Jun 03, 2009 (3:26 pm)
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Re: Since we're doing ugly... [bumpy] by lemko
Jun 03, 2009 (5:41 pm)
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Replying to: bumpy (Jun 03, 2009 3:26 pm)

Oh my God! The proportions are just all wrong! That's one of those first-generation Sevilles cut and shortened into a two-seater! Looks like a clown car! That top looks like it was sewn in a 6th grade home ec class!
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [andre1969] by berri
Jun 03, 2009 (5:42 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 03, 2009 6:16 am)

I think the Imperial looks kinda grotesque with the singles
 
I think the other Mopars looked much better with the blended single headlight and parking light set-up, but I guess they really couldn't do that with the Imperial design.
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [andre1969] by berri
Jun 03, 2009 (5:45 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 03, 2009 10:35 am)

I think the '57 Merc is a good example of a car that looks better with the single lights
 
I think the late 50's Mercury's were underrated and nice looking cars. If they had been GM models I think they would have probably been much more popular. The 57 seemed the cleanest design of them IMO.
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [lemko] by berri
Jun 03, 2009 (5:47 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 03, 2009 11:36 am)

I think the real tragedy was that the 55 and 56 Packard's were nice looking cars inside and out, then came the merger...
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Re: 2009 Burn Prevention Concours [andre1969] by lostwrench1
Jun 03, 2009 (6:30 pm)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 03, 2009 2:15 pm)

Packard Clipper, Club, Mayfair, Patrician, Cavalier, Caribbean, Panama, Constellation, Executive, Hawk.

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