Hmmm, here is the site I found it on - <<Link removed>>
In the image, the 2nd digit of the year is a bit grainy, but it looks like a '63. If this was a '65 or '66 model that would make sense, as running prototypes are seen on the roads years early (at least in today's auto industry, don't know about the 60s), however there's something fishy to all this as Packard was shut down in 1959, and Studebaker-Packard dropped the name in 1962. Searching more now, it seems as though the AACA has some skepticism if it was real -
http://forums.aaca.org/f134/1965-packard-185804.htmlAs far as the type of vehicle this was supposedly going to be, an all new V12 flagship sedan and coupe that was supposed to separate the brand from being rebadge Studebakers (kinda like what Lincoln need now
). That photo is the only one that is known to exist of the car, taken when supposedly one of the engineers took the car to pick up his kids from school.
Who knows, maybe with all the
Detroit Packard plant demolition in the news, work crews will find this in some sub-basement vault hidden and protected from scalpers/looters all these years, and show the world that it did exist.
