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The 1957 and 1958 Packard lineup of automobiles were based on Studebaker models: restyled, rebadged, and given more luxurious interiors. After 1956 production, the Packard engine and transmission factory was leased to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation while the assembly plant on Detroit's East Grand Boulevard was sold, ending the line of Packard-built cars.
The Packard Clipper is an automobile series built by the Packard Motor Car Company (and by the later Studebaker-Packard Corporation) for model years 1941–1942, 1946–1947, and 1953–1957. It was named for a type of sailing ship, called a clipper .
For 1957 Studebaker-Packard fielded a single model range, the Clipper. By the end of the 1958 model year the Packard name ceased as an automotive brand in the United States. Production totals for 1955 came to 7,206 units for the Packard Four Hundred, and 3,224 units for 1956.
1939-1958 Champion; 1947-1952 Starlight; 1954-1955 Conestoga; 1955 Speedster; 1956-1964 Hawk series. 1956 Flight Hawk; 1956 Power Hawk; 1956 Sky Hawk; 1956-1958 Golden Hawk; 1957-1959 Silver Hawk; 1960-1961 Hawk; 1962-1964 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk; 1956-1958, 1960-1963 Transtar; 1957 & 1958 Packard; 1957-1958 Scotsman; 1957 Packard Clipper ...
One unusual prototype, the Studebaker-Packard Astral, was made in 1957 and first unveiled at the South Bend Art Centre on January 12, 1958, and then at the March 1958 Geneva Motor Show. [58] It had a single gyroscopic balanced wheel and the publicity data suggested it could be nuclear powered or have what the designers described as an ionic engine.
The Studebaker-Packard Corporation is the entity created in 1954 by the purchase of the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan. While Studebaker was the larger of the two companies, Packard's balance sheet and executive team were stronger than that of the South Bend company.
Pages in category "Packard vehicles" ... Packard 250; Packard 300; 1957 and 1958 Packards; C. Packard Caribbean; Packard Clipper; E.
It includes more than 70 vehicles and numerous photos and displays as well as huge archive of photos and documents not on exhibit. [4] Although the collection focuses on the century-long history of the Studebaker corporation and the wagons, cars, trucks, and military vehicles it produced, the collection also includes a variety of other vehicles ...