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22/11/2013 2:34 am
Interesting "name" cars have had What do these actually mean????
I've seen the following names used, both very similar that I get mixed up. What do they actually mean???
Phaeton
Phanthom
22/11/2013 2:43 am
Phil, a phaeton usually connotes an open roadster...
...sometimes with a cowl between the front and back seats. A Phantom is a ghostly unseen entity. Rolls Royce has used the name in many of their vehicles.
22/11/2013 4:18 am
Tony is correct about Phaeton. Phantom isn't a description of a body style and is just a model name.
22/11/2013 5:57 am
PICS...In the Custom Car Community, a phantom is a car that was never produced by a manufacturer,...
...but has been created by a builder to look like a stock car. Some very well done examples...
1956 Mercury 2 Door Wagon built on a '56 Ford Ranch Wagon or Parklane....
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Dick's previously posted El Catalino....
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...and three of my all-time favorites, Carl Schneider's fabulous Packards.....
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The roadster should not be confused with the Packard Pan American or the Macauley Speedster. The original design was the winner of a contest held by Saga magazine in 1952 but was never built until 2001 when it was commissioned by Schneider. It features a retractable hardtop.
The coup? was a Pinin Farina design initiated by Packard that never got off the drawing board and was also executed by Schneider. 
22/11/2013 6:25 am
Phaeton
Phaeton
noun historical
? a light, open, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
? a vintage touring car.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French pha?ton, via Latin from the Greek name Phaethōn.
Phaethon (Greek Mythology)
the son of Helios the sun god. He asked to drive his father's solar chariot for a day, but could not control the immortal horses and the chariot plunged too near to the earth until Zeus killed Phaethon with a thunderbolt in order to save the earth from destruction.
Topic starter
22/11/2013 7:47 am
Thanks for the info! I;ve seen many times
Dual cowl Phaeton and while I knew what cowl meant, I didnt know the word Phaetons significance. I have just always accepted it but wonder whats in the name! Like our DM 1932 Cadillac Dual Cowl Phaeton lol
Topic starter
22/11/2013 7:48 am
WOW THATS a dramatic description! LOL
22/11/2013 10:55 am
How about "The Phantom of the Opera"? I bet you heard about it too.
22/11/2013 10:59 am
awesome phantoms!
22/11/2013 1:01 pm
John Bono
North Jersey