Puzzle #761 - Solved! Packard Hawk Prototype

[Otto Puzzell]

Packard Hawk Prototype

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Time to kick this one upstairs...

[Ray B.]

This is shouting "Studebaker !" but I can't find more about it.

[Otto Puzzell]

You're on the right track...

[Otto Puzzell]

The trail grows cold...

[Ray B.]

I know. I couldn't go any further.

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[Ray B.]

Thinking out loud:
It has the same windshield, vent windows and wheelcovers as the 53-55 Loewy coupes and (except for the wheelcovers) the later Hawks.
But it has the rear pillar found on the 1958 hardtops.
There is a chrome line and two-toning close to some 55 or 56 models and not excessive tail fins.

So all I can say is that it should be a styling proposal for the hardtops, Presidents or Hawks, 1955, 1956 or 1957.

[Otto Puzzell]

It is a prototype Packard Hawk.

[Ray B.]

Then I'm not sure I fully deserved that point...
I wish we could see the front but it already looks better than the production car.

[sixtee5cuda]

Good news!  The trail does not really go cold!

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=21796.0

(This information was available in 2008.  The car was written up in the SDC Turning Wheels magazine during 2001)

It is actually a Studebaker.  Time for a merge?