Design Outtake: 1951 Packard Pinin Farina Coupe

My internet is intermittent and keeps going dead, so I’m going to make this fast. I stumbled into this yesterday, and can’t remember having seen it before. So i thought I’d share it with you. It rather grabbed me, as do so many of Pininfarina’s takes on big American cars in the early 50s.



The interior is decidedly more European than even the body. I like the idea of swinging that big stick shift backing up the mighty straight eight.