I ENJOYED PAT FOSTER’S COLUMN and his take on Bob Hovorke’s Packard Balboa rendering in the March issue, HCC #210. Like him, I believe Studebaker-Packard, and other independents, could have stayed in business longer had they made better business decisions. Take Packard as an example: When there was no money to develop a new 1957 line, it chose to rebadge the Studebaker President sedan as a Clipper. Sales were dismal and the poorly disguised “Packardbakers” fooled no one.
The enclosed photos are of a prototype Packard that I built using the same vehicle as a starting point but featuring the traditional ox-yoke grille, cathedral taillamps, and other Packard styling cues. I believe this design would have been much more successful than
