{"id":12907,"date":"2021-01-30T03:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T03:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.txclsx.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=12907"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:58:13","slug":"1953-packard-mayfair-hardtop-coupe","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/product\/1953-packard-mayfair-hardtop-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"1953 Packard Mayfair Hardtop Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1953 Packard Mayfair Hardtop Coupe<\/strong> &#8211; The 1951-1953 Packard Mayfair was the Packard auto company&#8217;s offering in the quickly growing hardtop market of the immediate postwar era. Along with the all-steel station wagon, hardtop designs grabbed upwards of a third of domestic output by mid-decade.\u00a0The hardtop stole the show with its pizzazz, however, causing automakers to jump on the bandwagon. Some hardtops looked like deft, ground-up designs; others looked like what they were: two-door sedans with hastily contrived pillarless side windows.\u00a0The 1951-1953 Packard Mayfair was among the later arrivals, and product-wise wasn&#8217;t truly satisfactory because of compromises.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/packard-cars.htm\">Packard<\/a> built it on the junior short-wheelbase chassis, and attempted to sell it (and the concurrent convertible) as a prestige line. Thus it came with a &#8220;250&#8221; designation, senior-style grille teeth, 327-cid engine, full wheel covers, and pelican hood ornament.\u00a0None of this disguised the fact that at $3,200 to $3,400, the Packard Mayfair competed more with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/auto.howstuffworks.com\/buick.htm\">Buick<\/a>, Chrysler, and Mercury than with Cadillac, Imperial, and Lincoln. It thus failed to buck up Packard&#8217;s sagging luxury image, and added little to sales of middle-priced Packards. None of which meant the 1951-1953 Packard Mayfair wasn&#8217;t a very nice car in its own right. All of the above deluxe components combined with the pillarless windowline did make for a sporty, upmarket Packard. &#8220;Mayfair&#8221; seemed an appropriate name, too, conjuring up images of a fashionable district in London, or a famous London coachbuilder. And the smoothly integrated styling avoided the &#8220;cobbled&#8221; look of such hastily contrived rivals as the Hudson Hollywood and DeSoto Sportsman. Highlights of this beautiful example include; 327ci Flat 8 (180hp), Auto, Signal Seeking AM Radio, Power Antenna, Recent Tune Up, Orchard Green, 15&#8243; Wire Wheel Covers, Coker White Walls, 1 of only 5,150 Produced!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1953 Packard Mayfair Hardtop Coupe &#8211;<\/strong> 327ci Flat 8 (180hp), Auto, Signal Seeking AM Radio, Power Antenna, Recent Tune Up, Orchard Green, 15&#8243; Wire Wheel Covers, Coker White Walls, 1 of only 5,150 Produced!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12908,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12907","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-rsold","7":"product_shipping_class-large-items","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=12907"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12907"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txclsx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}