Packard Concept Cars
Packard Twelve Prototype
In keeping true to the Packard legacy, the Packard Twelve Prototype of the late 1990s was designed and built as a unique, ultra-luxury, high-performance full-size American vehicle with moderately progressive, distinctive styling incorporating traditional......
Packard Predictor Concept
The Packard Predictor was one of the companys last triumphs. The Predictors design is credited to Richard Teague and it was built on a stock Clipper chassis by Ghia. Ghia completed the project in an amazing 90 days, just in time for the Predictor to......
Packard Request Concept
Displaying Packards new style for 1955, Dick Teague convinced Packard president James Nance that their newest show car should pay tribute to the classic vertical grille. Creative Industries did the modification on the third 1955 Four Hundred to come......
Packard Panther Daytona Concept
The story of the very first Packards is a classic tale of American ambition. James Ward Packard purchased a Winton automobile in the late 1890s. Unsatisfied with his new car, the man was convinced he could do better. A producer of electrical equipment,......
Packard Balboa Concept
Packard was one of the leading luxury marques and one of the oldest car companies in America, with the first Packard built in 1899. The company began life as the Ohio Automobile Company based in Warren, Ohio. It became the Packard Motor Car Company in......
Packard Monte Carlo
The second Packard show car to appear in 1953 also featured a special roof, or rather, part of one. The Monte Carlo was based, not on the limited-production Caribbean, but on Packards popular 2-door hardtop, the Mayfair. Two examples were built by the......
Packard Pacifica Concept
In 1952, Saga Magazine held a contest for concept car design. This Packard design won and was featured on the cover of the magazine. The car was never built. In 2001, California collector Carl Schneider commissioned the car to be built. It......
Packard Pan American
Since the mid-1930s, the Henney Motor Company had been the exclusive builder of Packards commercial cars. In 1952, Henneys president Charles Russell Feldman struck a deal with Packard president Hugh Ferry to build Packards newest show car, the Pan......
Packard Panther Macauley
The Packard Panther was built in-house as a personal car for Edward Macauley, Packards Director of Styling in 1951. Parts were used from production Packards and given a wheelbase that measured 122 inches. The car sits very low to the grown making it......
Packard 200 Henney
Although not considered a Packard show car, this unique vehicle is guaranteed to turn heads at any gathering of collector cars. The basis for this was a lowly 1951 200 business coupe, the lowest-priced vehicle Packard offered that year. The Henney......
Packard Vignale Victoria
In 1948, Packard sales were declining against the might of GM and Ford while Carrozzeria Vignale was headed in the other direction. The Italian coachbuilder offered the possibility of revitalizing the Packard line and invigorate stagnate sales. Alfredo......