The 1954 Packard Panther Convertible was produced as a concept car <br> <br> with muscle. Packard also designed the Panther with then-revolutionary materials in mind.<br> <br> Packard -- which...

The 1954 Packard Panther Convertible was produced as a concept car <br> <br> with muscle. Packard also designed the Panther with then-revolutionary materials in mind.<br> <br> Packard -- which had considered using this then-revolutionary material as early as 1941, primarily as a means <br> <br> of continuing auto production in the face of wartime steel shortages -- was dabbling in the field, too.<br> <br> In 1953, the company again considered using the material and decided to build a two-seat convertible <br> <br> sports car with a GRP body. Packard's chief stylist, Richard <br> <br> A. Teague, was given the task of hastily styling the car.<br> <br> No time was allowed for him to construct a full-size mock-up, so management approved his design directly from a small one-sided model.<br> <br> A running version was completed in 1954, using the 127-inch wheelbase Cavalier chassis and <br> <br> the metal floorpan common to all Packards of that year.<br> <br> It was originally to be called "Grey Wolf II," after Packard's famed 1903 race car.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Also visit my web-site ... <a href="https://wiki.familie-rosche.de/index.php?title=And_Rubbing_Those_Pads_Together%3F">Titan Rise Daily</a>

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