Re: The absolute last Packard manufactured.
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As of the end of business on Thursday, June 21, 1956, the Conner Plant had built 1,021 1956 Executive 2-door hardtops. As a total of 1,031 were finally built, the last 10 were built during the next two days, Friday the 22nd and Monday the 25th (the last day of production), although it is not known if all 10 were built on Friday, on Monday or were split between the two days.
This information was taken from the form "1956 Model Balance Out Schedule Status As Of Close Of Business 6-21-56", which was obtained from one of the authors of the AQ "Packard - A History..." book. So - #5677-2010A (the 1,010th 5677 built) should have been built during the June 18-21 period.
Posted on: 2015/2/2 22:01
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Re: 1951 24th series and on grille teeth factory cutout to fit grille?
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Bolted into place. See group number 30.874024. The outer teeth are different - the inner 6 teeth are the same.
Posted on: 2015/2/2 10:26
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Re: Is this a 1938 Super 8
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It is a SIX, not a 120. Check the scalloped side hood louvers, used only on the 1939 Sixes.
Posted on: 2015/1/21 12:19
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Re: Earliest known surviving Packard
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Mr. James Ward Packard donated $1,000,000. to Lehigh Uni. for an engineering laboratory around 1927. He died in 1928. It was the Packard Motor Car Company that donated the 1899 Packard to Lehigh in 1930. As first proposed, PMCC would "lend" the 1899 to Lehigh, but the school wanted complete ownership. So, PMCC agreed, with the provision that the company could borrow it when it wanted to - which it did in 1946 and 1949.
Posted on: 2015/1/14 21:37
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Re: Golden Anniversary survivors?
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One was on display at the 1999 show in Warren, Ohio at the Magnum Opus. Another one was featured in the Packard Cormorant magazine several years ago.
Posted on: 2015/1/1 9:55
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I saw him - and his 1938 - at the PI meet last February. Both looked pretty good.
Posted on: 2014/12/7 22:10
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Re: Question about 47 Clippers
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The Clipper Super will have the names "Clipper" and "Super" on the front door & fender. The Clipper Custom Super does not have any name on the door or fender.
Posted on: 2014/8/29 21:29
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Re: Packard first to use neon sign
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That's Earle with an "e" at the end, thank you very much...
Posted on: 2014/8/28 12:39
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Re: The big four way
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The May 17, 1952 issue of "Business Week" devoted a full-page to Nance joining Packard. The headline read: "Nance's Idea: Merge Packard." The newsweekly reported that: "Nance intends to make Packard the nucleus of a big new auto company - big enough to join the Big Three, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford - in a new Big Four. Nance's idea is to merge Packard with one or more of the other independent auto producers, most likely Nash-Kelvinator. It was on the understanding that he could tackle something like this that Nance took the Packard job."
"Putting Packard together would be one way to cure some of the problems," Business Week concluded, "as well as add to the number of dealer outlets and widen the line. Such a union might sound attractive, too, to an outfit like Nash. If not, there are other possibilities. The Detroit Athletic Club bar has cooked up many a merger that never came off. But no one should be surprised to learn any day that Hudson, Studebaker, Nash, Packard or Willys really was involved in a merger made up of some combination of those named." So -- while Langworth did not know about the four-way plan until his interview with Nance in the 1970s, it WAS being discussed around Detroit in the early 1950s.
Posted on: 2014/8/23 15:31
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