I visited the Packard museum recently with my girlfriend and her father. Well, it's more like I brought them to this museum as I've been there many times and have a friend that used to run it. I thought I would share some pictures...

I only just read about the Packard Hawk in the Hemmings news or something....

Known as "Packardbakers" due to their Studebaker badge-engineered heritage or something??

Cheers for the share!


Dave

The middle one is a Packardbaker, I believe. It's actually a prototype convertible, the production version only came in hardtop:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/tag/packardbaker/

Not a 'bad' looking car for America's 1950s, not a good one either. It looks like a fish, but not a good looking fish. I'm not sure who designed it, they probably don't want credit anyway, the design it originated from was Raymond Loewy's Studebaker Hawk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Golden_Hawk

But I would hope Loewy wouldn't design that thing, most of his stuff was good; perhaps he was experimenting with acid at that time and this is the result?

If theres one thing you fellas can do its styling! Some beautiful vehicles there, and there is even a 'beauty' in the ugliness of those extreme design experiments. There is a '58 Packard sedan in the family, and its all add-on fibreglassy bits & extended fins. Ug-lee, but beautiful. The height of ostentatious!

Thanks for showing,
Matt.