Cut part of each side of the roof off and you could call it the Cutty Sark.

Cause it'd be a T-Clipper.

This thing needs to be properly restored. There were few of these built, and this thing should remind the existing car companies that Badge Engineering is bad..... very very bad.

Very Caddy like when viewed from the front, the rest- best forgotten. I think the Carribbean was still around in 1957, trying to save this once proud marque from total embarrassment. The Clipper got even more strange in 1958, but then again I think '58 was an abysmal year for all cars.

The dual headlight ones were even worse. Only one I've seen was a wagon. Very rare - about 150 of the wagon made. The headlight pod was a fiberglass add on!

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"Ask the Mary Kay Salswoman Who Owns One..."

@charles_barrett: salswoman=saleswoman

That's either driven by a very old lady, or some hipster dude that you'd like to smack up side the head.

Well, the Packard club hates the Studebaker club because Studebaker supposedly caused the demise of Packard (they were both dying).

Also - note the decal of the Studebaker Driver's Club, bet it belongs to a SDC member who likes Packardbakers.

And to think that S-P almost bought the 1956-'57 Lincoln body tooling to make Packards with, but the Wall Street crowd (who--rightly--saw the S-P combine as a total loser) refused to lend S-P the money to buy it.

Whoever designed the 2009 Honda Pilot needs to take a look at these photos to see how to design a car. I guess because it's from my childhood, I love the looks of this Packardbaker.

Works on contingency? No, money down!

That grill emblem would make a fantastic belt buckle.

"Aaarrr, yer drivin' me nuts!"

Thanks for posting so many pics of it. This is my favorite Packard, which doesn't say a lot, but most of it appeals to me. The nose and tail, especially.

Thanks for posting all the pictures. I really like this particular Packard, save for the window frames. Didn't realize there was one in decent condition still around.

Damned double-posting crap. My apologies.

Wow, Caddy in the front, Buick in the back.
This rare bird needs to be saved!

Wait. What's in the garbage back in the back seat?

I know consumerism was big back in those 'What's good for general electric is good for America' days, but what the hell were Americans buying that we needed a trunk that big?!

This is without a doubt one of the saddest chunks of offal to ever roll on four tires. I lived through twighlight of the Packard and I remember vividly when this sad, grotesque, baroque, parody of an automobile came out. There was a lady who used to visit her daughter in the house across the road from us. She arrived in a Brewster green 1939 Packard phaeton with sidemounts and great white sidewalls that produced the only sound you could hear when the car was moving -- a discreet rushing sound of rubber against macadam. I would walk out and admire the gleaming chrome, the saddle leather seats, the separate radio controls in the back seat, all the while conscious of my reflection in the huge flat doors. In less than a decade we had come to THIS! I always imagined that Packard tried to pick up the spirits of their doomed workers by allowing each one to add a piece of trim from a big bin to these cars as they rolled down the assembly line. "Hey, let's try that ships wheel!" "All RI-I-IGHT!" This car is the note left at the site of a corporate suicide pact.

I mispelled "twilight." I was just too much in the crapulent mood of the Packardbaker.

There's one thing you gotta like about Clippers. Lots of people call their big old cars "Land Yachts." But only Clipper owners actually have the jewelry to back it up!

Love the boomerang taillamps. And the side mirrors dangling from the tops of the doors.

I really need to be more careful shooting chrome.

I think it's neither hipster nor little old lady who owns this, but a regular guy in his 40s. If it's the same people who lived here before. (I used to live just down the street.)

@Eldorado: Can't agree more. The Packards of the late thirties are legendary. Guy here in Tombstone had a '36 Roadster, and yeah it was completely silent. Another guy here has a beater '53 Caribbean, and we got it running one day and tried to balance nickels on the head of the straight eight while it idled. If the car had been parked level it would have worked. Studebakers were cool, but not when they were billed as Packards. Fun trivia fact- a Packard won the 1953 Carrera Panamericana.

Well, someone has to say it...

"Clipper?! I hardly know 'er!"

And besides, Packard died after 1913.