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The last in my photo series from the 2023 Smoky Valley Car Show brings us back once again to that photogenic 1957 Lincoln Premiere. I don’t care how many children split their heads open on those tail fins poking out. Oh, the fins! I love them! The horizontal lines across the back, the huge backup light housings built into the bumper, and the chrome starburst on the trunk lid all contribute to put this high on my list of greatest looking cars ever.
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*resident car nerd on Ursus' threads* ;)
Not many people know that, but you're right; Studebaker ( who, of course, owned Packard by then) wanted to buy the '56 Lincoln dies to use as a template for a '57-58 Packard.
Part of the problem was that the Ford Motor Company was an internal administrative mess at the time, and something fell through as to where Studebaker-Packard could rework and produce the "new" Packard. I've also read that Ford didn't want to help a competing brand with Lincoln, who were still trying to establish themselves in the postwar luxury car field.
Either way, we never got what may have been a very nice 1957 Packard.
*car nerd out*
Not many people know that, but you're right; Studebaker ( who, of course, owned Packard by then) wanted to buy the '56 Lincoln dies to use as a template for a '57-58 Packard.
Part of the problem was that the Ford Motor Company was an internal administrative mess at the time, and something fell through as to where Studebaker-Packard could rework and produce the "new" Packard. I've also read that Ford didn't want to help a competing brand with Lincoln, who were still trying to establish themselves in the postwar luxury car field.
Either way, we never got what may have been a very nice 1957 Packard.
*car nerd out*
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