1952 Packard Parisian

The Packard Parisian is one of three Packard custom cars built by Carl Schneider and Peter Portugal of Eureka, California. The three vehicles were inspired by design study drawings that were done in the early 1950's by Packard, but were never put into production or even made into official dream cars. The Parisian is a European Grand Tourer that was originally penned by Pininfarina. Schneider discovered the renderings at the Paris Retromobile in the early 1990's and purchased them. Starting with a 1952 Packard 250 series Mayfair two-door hardtop, Schneider stretched the hood seven inches and used two sets of left and right quarter panels to create the tailfins.

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[realbogus]

This car is currently on display at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, CA. theadm dot org

[ObDaDa]

i haD a '52 PackharD Henny AmbuLanCe ( NaVy SurpluS )== SaMe engiNe-- DasH --fronT & TaiLlights

MaNy supeR MemoRieS......

[GenericGene]

Packard lost it's way in the 1940' - the 1947-8 Cadillac exerted it's superiority in styling -

[Shoknifeman]

@kikddabottle oh, there is no doubt that did hurt them, but, they had all-new, much larger models in the works and plans for a new V8 ; had they spent the money on these cars instead of purchasing Studebaker, they could have survived; my point was that Studebaker's terrible debt was what killed Packard; not the other factors, which DID hurt the company, but, not fatally.

[kikddabottle]

@Shoknifeman didn't the attempt to slightly move downmarket slightly damage them also?i remember reading something about the attempt to do this caused loss of prestige to loss of customers to lack of funds to lack of proper development which leads to loss of prestige etc...thanks for the info :) sad about what happened,what's happened to the factory,

[Shoknifeman]

@Shoknifeman oops typo, i meant 1966, not 65

[Shoknifeman]

@KapteinOpel Funny thing about those particular tailights, Packard CEO James Nance hated them and had nicknamed them "Bulls Nuts" tailights!

[Shoknifeman]

@kikddabottle ...Studebaker was kept because it was a multi-line auto manufacturer, as opposed to Packard which made mostly high-end cars; in the end, Packard spent 2 years as a rebadged Stude (1957 & 58) and the Studebaker co went into a fast decline after the (1963) Avanti failed to catch on; making it's last cars in Canada, in 1965

[Shoknifeman]

@kikddabottle Packard didn't really die, the truth is that the Packard co. came out of WW2 in very good financial shape, however, what happened was Packard was sacrificed (in 1957*) in order to prop up Studebaker, which was heavily in the red.

The problem was that Studebaker officials lied about their co.s debt when Packard were discussing absorbing that company; by the time the truth was out, it was too late, one of the companies would have to go....Studebaker was kept...

[Shoknifeman]

@kikddabottle No, Packard had a steel dash at the time....this car was a one-off show car special