While we were spending several days earlier this week in a B&B in Carlisle PA, I spotted this 1957 Packard Country Sedan sitting on a platform by the roadside in E. Berlin. The tin worm was having its day with the car that still might have a future if only somebody with deep pockets and a desire to restore this car would come along to rescue it. Packard built 4809 cars for 1957, 3940 were town sedans. Only 869 copies of the country sedan were built.
Some years back Brooklin released a nice town sedan in Tiara Gold. For a while it was thought that a country sedan (wagon) version might follow and some of us were hopeful but it never came to pass. John Roberts, however, performed his vintage magic in creating one copy of the country sedan in Rose/White. As he recalls it went to somebody in France. Would I ever have loved to have become the proud owner of that beautiful model.
Top picture shows a restored country sedan.
This topic was modified 4 years ago 3 times by David Knight
A beautiful model. I have and love the sedan than Brooklin offered, it would be wonderful to have a wagon as well. I wasn't aware (or have forgotten that John Roberts did one)
In Studebaker's clever effort to conserve capital they used the 1957-58 body of the Studebaker and Packard from windscreen to tailgate to create the Lark wagons of 1959-60. Here's a conversion of one from a Brooklin sedan. And I'm still on the lookout for more inexpensive Brooklin Larks to create still more versions of the '60 Larks.
Ed, two of our sons and their wives graduated from Dickinson and we have a grandson who is a junior there so it’s been may trips to Carlisle. So you are a Dickinson alum too! Small world. Great school.
In Studebaker's clever effort to conserve capital they used the 1957-58 body of the Studebaker and Packard from windscreen to tailgate to create the Lark wagons of 1959-60. Here's a conversion of one from a Brooklin sedan. And I'm still on the lookout for more inexpensive Brooklin Larks to create still more versions of the '60 Larks.
I had always hoped that Brooklin would have done a Lark wagon and convertible....but alas...it was not to be.
Ed, two of our sons and their wives graduated from Dickinson and we have a grandson who is a junior there so it’s been may trips to Carlisle. So you are a Dickinson alum too! Small world. Great school.
