Re: Curbside Classic: Packard 200 Article

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2013/11/27 0:18:05

By law all car sales to the public were suspended in April 1942. Factories stopped making cars and all cars in dealer stock were stored in bonded warehouses and rationed out to essential users.

Numerous Packards were sent to bus makers to be converted into stretch limousines for bus type service, ferrying workers to their factory jobs etc.

If you do a search for Atomic Packard on this site you will find one that was converted by the Fitzjohn Coach company and used at the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory.

Ford was permitted to make a few cars for military use during the war. They were probably assembled from available spare parts.