Oh, boy, you've done some research. Just to think, the Packard car company was a no compromise operation when it came to making beautiful works of art on wheels made from the finest materials in combinations with the best automotive engineering standards of the time.
After WWII Packard was okay financially. It made money from the contracts during the war years and had a lot of cash to put back into making superlative cars. But the Big 3 -- GM, Ford, Chrysler -- did so much better from the war contracts.
As far as car designs of the 40s period -- before 1941 and all the years after until 1050 -- dull, even though these overall design stress was on what the marketing departments wanted to foist off on the pubic as "aerodynamic."
Indeed, the term, "dynamic" was something of a buzzword during the 1950s. Perhaps it could be equated to a buzzword we've all heard more than once: "awesome."
But that is subject for a latter digression as it pertains to what occurred in America in the 1950s decade.
That Packardbaker, as it was called, is noted for what the auto critics described as a "fishmouth grill." Also the bumper bullets. During the 1950s they were described as "Dagmar Bumpers."
You'll have to google that one. It's a fun read.
