29 Facts About Packard Clipper

The Packard Clipper was introduced in April, 1941, as a mid-model year entry.

The Packard Clipper name was re-introduced in 1953, for the automaker's lowest-priced line up.

Only the 1956 model year, the Clipper became a stand-alone make of automobile produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

The Packard Clipper One-Twenty had arrived in 1935 and saved the company from immediate demise; the One-Ten had followed, achieving even higher volume.

The Packard Clipper represented a break from traditional styling and embodied an abrupt change in construction techniques.

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Besides Packard Clipper, Ford brought out a much changed design for the 1941 model year — the restyled Ford and its Mercury clone.

Unlike Lincoln, Packard Clipper followed the medium-priced One-Twenty with an almost-low-priced car, the Six.

Unlike Cadillac, Packard Clipper refused to market its cheaper models by a different name, and remained wedded to them long after prosperity had returned.

Packard Clipper was able to advertise—and sold quite a few Packards with—styling continuity from year to year.

Packard Clipper survived with limited styling change for at least eight or nine years up through 1940.

Packard Clipper offered me a thousand dollars a day if I could meet the deadline.

The only thing hindering the Packard Clipper's ascendency was War II, and after the war, the sheet steel shortages and strikes at vendors that plagued all independents.

The Packard Clipper had at least as many pioneering features in an even more integrated package.

Whereas Cadillac with its greater facilities was able to field a complete line of restyled 1942s, including convertibles, all of which came right back in 1946, Packard Clipper was able only to add a club coupe body before the war.

Packard Clipper was still firmly run by President George Christopher, who had helped save it with the One Twenty.

Against Cadillac's $3,100 Sixty Special, which came only as a four-door sedan, Packard offered the more sumptuously trimmed Custom Super Clipper sedan or coupe for about the same money.

Indeed, in 1948, the final year for President George Christopher, senior Packard Clipper production dwindled from 20 percent to 11 percent of total production, trailing Cadillac by tens of thousands.

Hindsight does suggest that Packard Clipper lost its battle for survival at this point, although it would not be evident immediately.

Packard Clipper recognized this too late when it brought out a convertible as the first 1948 body style—a model it should have had by 1947 at the latest.

Clipper nameplate was dropped for 1948 as Packard issued its Twenty-Second Series automobiles, which, while proclaimed by the company as "all-new, " were actually restyled Clippers.

However, Packard Clipper continued to push hard into the lower end of the mid-priced field with its new "200" and "250" models.

For 1955, Packard Clipper became a marque in the newly formed Studebaker-Packard Clipper Corporation.

The 1955 Packard Clipper Custom offered torsion-bar suspension something not offered on other models, which only offered coil and leaf spring suspension.

Packard Clipper Constellation was a two-door hardtop automobile produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation in model years 1955 and 1956.

Studebaker agencies in areas not covered by separate Packard dealers were allowed to sign Clipper franchise agreements.

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Clippers began receiving unique trim and rear quarter panels in 1954, and when Packard introduced its redesigned model in 1955, the Clipper retained its older rear sheet metal while receiving two-tone combinations that were unique to its models.

For 1956, the Packard Clipper received new rear sheet metal and tail-light treatments.

Packard Clipper marketed two hardtop coupes, the Panama in the Super model line and Constellation in the Custom range.

Packard Clipper was assembled in Australia from CKD kits circa 1955.