Vintage shots from days gone by!

Senior Packard line prototype for 1957. Studebaker-Packard had an ambitious plan to introduce all-new cars for 1957 for Clipper, Studebaker and Packard, all based on a "modular" body shell that could be used as the basis for all three brands. Unfortunately, there was no money to do it and no one wanted to lend S-P the kind of money needed to pull the plan off.

 

That's pretty cool. If they did find an investor, maybe we would be driving brand new S-P products today?

 

Ronnie Pettersson Swedish formula 1 driver
in his 6 wheel Lotus around 73 i think
I had a poster of that car on my wall
Died on Monza in the late 70s

 

Man, I got to agree with rugrat here. That was one clean, good looking gal!

 

Not that it really matters but it is a F1 Tyrell 6 wheeler. Peterson was indeed a great one.

 

Yes you are right he died in a Lotus

 

This is 1414 W. Southern in Tempe, Az.

Here it is as it looks now... I left in 1993 but there were still alot of the 19th century homes in this area.

 

Yes, and we lost way too many great F1 drivers around that tiem.

 

Well, I was wrong one other time, but now I know what it's like to be wrong AND mistaken! Thanks for setting us straight!

 

Broke my heart in August of 75 when Mark Donohue was killed in Austria. You are right way too many met their demise in these cars during that era.

 

No big deal... I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken!

 

LOL - Yeah, me too but my wife told me I was wrong anyway

 

He crashed in a Lotus, but he died in a Italian hospital.

From what I've read, because they bodged the surgery...

Edit.

He shouldnt have died from the injuries he had.

But, if I remember correctly, they let a TV crew into the operating room while he was being worked on, and turned the whole deal into a circus.

And lost a great racing driver in the process...

 

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Yep. It's 1he 1956 Packard Predictor
concept car. It was designed by
stylist Dick Teague and was his
proposal for the 1957 Packard.
Packard was on it's last legs by that
time and had no money to produce
the car and after '56, no dedicated
Packard factory or engine plant
even, with which to build it . Instead
of a bunch of high-end Predictor-based
cars, all '57 and '58 "Packards" ended
up being merely re-trimmed and
re-badged Studebakers. One of the
plans for Predictor, if it had been
been produced for the '57 model
year, was to have bored and stroked
the '56 dual-quad 374 cubic Packard
Caribbean engine all the way out
to 440 cubic inches and fit it with
Packard's own, in-house developed
- but also never produced - fuel
injection system. (What an engine
that would have been!!!) When
Packard realized by early-to
mid-1956 that it was going to
be impossible for them to put the
proposed Predictor-based cars
into production, a last ditch
attempt to save the car and
possibly save Packard too, by
producing it, Teague and some
Packard executives even approached
the Ford Motor Company about having
the Lincoln-Mercury division produce
the car for Packard by building the
bodies for them and assembling the
car in a L-M factory, using Lincoln
engines, chassis and running gear
...a proposal that Ford quickly
rejected. I don't know if it's just a
coincidence and a conglomeration
of popular styling trends of the time,
but there seems to some elements
of the styling of Teague's 'Predictor'
concept that that appear in the late
50's and early 60's Fords, Lincolns
and Mercuries.

Mart3406
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PS. - just added - Here's a picture
of the Packard Predictor as it
appears today, on display at the
Studebaker-Packard Museum in
South Bend Indiana
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Yeah..I agree....and by the look of
that waist-line, I'll bet it didn't cost
a whole lot to feed her, either!!!!

Mart3406 ("who always looks for
the practical and at the long-term
cost of 'care and feeding' in his
women!")
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Very cool pics!!!!!!!! i only wish i was around in those days....

 

The Ford 'Turbo Titan" gas-turbine
powered concept and show truck,
circa 1964. Back in the late 1950's
and early '60's, Ford, GM, International
Harvester and White, to name four
heavy truck manufacturers, were
all experimenting with gas turbine
power-plants for heavy-duty
over-the-road trucks and all four
companies even released a few gas
turbine-engined trucks to several
large trucking fleets for testing. What
killed all of them though was poor
fuel mileage - about 40 to 50 per-cent
higher fuel consumption than that
of conventional diesel-powered
trucks of the day. Other than that ,
the gas turbine was far superior
to diesels in every other way for
heavy truck use. But when you're
averaging 150,000 or more miles
a year for every vehicle in your
fleet, even just a few per-percentage
points up or down in overall fuel
milage adds up to big money. really
quickly.

Mart3406
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Grab one now - there won't be a '52!

 

Yes the injuries was not leatal he died of a blodcloth
stoping the circulation. Sad but true

 

The 6 wheel car was a Tyrrel P34 raced in 73 74. don't believe Lotus ever featured a 6 wheel design.

 

GM's turbine-powered truck was called the "Turbo Titan", while Ford's was called "Big Red":

 

Offset, Donohue was my hero also. By the way, is that James Hunt checking out the Tyrrell in the photo?

 

Boy! those old depression camps along the road, were called "Hoovervilles" as John Steinbeck called them in his "Grapes of Rath" novel. One thing good about it was a lot of people drove there in a jalopy.

 

Some vintage shots..