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24/01/2025 8:14 am
Which '58 Packard?
Be sure to make your selection.
Of course, please “Reply” to share your comments.
If selection is greater than 2 rank them.
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John Bono
North Jersey
24/01/2025 8:15 am
Oh yeah, the Starlight Hard top!
24/01/2025 8:19 am
I’d go with the Starlight, less fishy. 🥴
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
24/01/2025 9:25 am
No oil painting, these. I'll take the Starlight also. Its face is less objectionable.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
24/01/2025 9:47 am
I have no interest in either. The noses just turn me off.
24/01/2025 10:33 am
Agreed, John. Possibly the most desperately ugly attempt at a "facelift" ever seen on any car.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
24/01/2025 12:59 pm
I voted a rare tie today. These odd looking cars look much better in 1/43 scale IMHO, but nonetheless I find them intriguing from an automotive historical perspective. I have the Esval Packard 58L HT and the GLM 1958 Packard Hawk and love having them both in the display cabinet.
24/01/2025 1:13 pm
From my perspective, the overall shape of these two Packards is okay, but the details get a little wonky. The fiberglass nose created for the Hawk was not one of Duncan McRae's best efforts. I think that the quad headlamps grafted on the Starlight Hardtop are hideous. Nonetheless I feel a good measure of enjoyment on the rare occasions I see one of these cars in person.
24/01/2025 1:33 pm
@dave_larsen I guess these design changes were a last ditch very inexpensive attempt at survival by a company on the verge of collapse. Quite sad for the marque to end this way.
24/01/2025 2:52 pm
24/01/2025 3:31 pm
Unlike most, I find that Packard Hawk rather attractive. The Starlight just looks too cluttered.
24/01/2025 4:19 pm
Neither are award winning IMO but the Starlight is less so.
24/01/2025 6:34 pm
A TIE for both being equally odd and frog looking. I don't like either one of them.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
24/01/2025 9:25 pm
John! Like them or not, this is an amazing comparo! Well done and thought-provoking! I'll go for the Starlight, but I agree that it's a bit cluttered.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
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