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Re: Found pics
Last of the Packards (really a facelifted Studebaker by then). I wonder if that background is part of the old Willow Run factory where they were built (former Liberator bomber plant) or just some other North American urban decay.
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Re: Found pics
I can't recall which,but the caption with the picture said it was in either New York or New Jersey. It does show just how crudely the fins were attached though.
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Re: Found pics
OK, not Willow Run then (Michigan) Studebaker-Packard were fans of that form of updating by overlaying fins on earlier designs. They got a long innings out of the Starliner/Hawk coupe shape for instance....slowanimals wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:47 am I can't recall which,but the caption with the picture said it was in either New York or New Jersey. It does show just how crudely the fins were attached though.
From the purity of the 1953 production version styled by the Raymond Loewy organisation (but not Loewy himself)
Various bits were added fore and aft (those fins were fibreglass additions), the car was available as pillarless hardtop or 2 door coupe with a full-height "B" post and the shape went through the turbulent design changes of 1950s American car production, ending in 1961 model year in this form....
Another few seasons (in fact up until Studebaker's final demise as a US car manufacturer) were obtained from the Brooks Stevens update of the shape, losing the wraparound screen and the fins in the revamp....
Over 10 years from a basic shape (with much tucking and cutting). Not long nowadays but in the context of 1950s American car design that was practically an eternity.
Note the similarity, too, to Sunbeam designs of the 1960s - Rootes were another customer of the Raymond Loewy studios.
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Re: Found pics
Interesting variety there, I am wondering if it's something like the Tour de France or Alpine Rally. A couple of Ferrari 275 GTBs along with a pair of Alfa TZs. Hordes of Renault 8 Gordinis and a couple of Porsche 904s. And a Skoda! Not sure what #36 is but could be a Glas. Splendid Daf 33.