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09/06/2024 10:45 am
'52 Buick or Packard?
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John Bono
North Jersey
09/06/2024 10:49 am
I think I have to go with the more familiar Buick for the '52 year. Packard came into its own by '55 and '56 but for '52 Buick wins in my eyes.
09/06/2024 11:32 am
I never cared for this generation Packard, but it took my vote today. Maybe the colors and the wire wheels, but it does it for me.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
09/06/2024 11:43 am
Great colors on both of these beautiful automobiles ! That might be the toughest job in deciding what hue to get on either of these cars.
09/06/2024 12:41 pm
Not a fan of either and in '52 I would have bought a Hudson or a Mercury. Prefer the looks of the Packard here.
09/06/2024 1:09 pm
I prefer the more flowing body lines of the Buick but like both cars very much.
09/06/2024 5:21 pm
To my eye the Packard has a more "formal" look and that better suits the upper-crust class of car represented by these two, IMHO.
Barry Levittan
Long Island, NY
09/06/2024 6:09 pm
Buick for me.The only Packard I liked from this era is the 53 Caribbean and to a lesser degree, the 54.
Topic starter
11/06/2024 7:34 am
To my eye the Packard has a more "formal" look and that better suits the upper-crust class of car represented by these two, IMHO.
Agree with Barry.
John Bono
North Jersey
John Kuvakas and Tony Perrone reacted
11/06/2024 9:04 am
I prefer the more flowing body lines of the Buick but like both cars very much.
I much prefer the squarer automobile lines than the "flowing body lines" like a work of art; I want a car not a work of art. Just like the '61 - 63 T-bird looks like a rocket ship, I want a car that looks like a car. JMO
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11/06/2024 10:56 am
@brush Never in the 34 years I have owned my 63 Sports Roadster Thunderbird has anyone ever mistaken it for a rocket ship.
11/06/2024 11:35 am
@brush Never in the 34 years I have owned my 63 Sports Roadster Thunderbird has anyone ever mistaken it for a rocket ship.
And accordingly Bob, I'm sure no one has ever mistaken you for Slim Pickens when operating it.
11/06/2024 1:06 pm
@brush Never in the 34 years I have owned my 63 Sports Roadster Thunderbird has anyone ever mistaken it for a rocket ship.
But it was designed to resemble a jet or rocket like quite a few cars of the same period. Love your roadster but dislike the hardtop. I prefer the square-birds, '58 - '60 & '64 - '66 or your roadster.
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