Packard Panther

The Packard Panther was a concept car built in 1954 to show ideas Packard was considering for its production cars. It was first named the Grey Wolf and also called the Packard Daytona, and four were built. It was a two-seat personal luxury convertible, lower than the Pan-American show car, with a one-piece fiberglass body credited to Dick Teague. Though shown in late 1954 and 1955, when Packard was already advertising its new overhead valve V8, it used the older 327 cubic inch flathead straight eight, supercharged to 275 horsepower, with Ultramatic transmission. Its original 1955 Clipper taillights were replaced with the cathedral units of the senior series, and one car, owned by Mitchell-Bentley executive William Mitchell Sr., had a removable hardtop like that of the 1955 Thunderbird.