Rusty O\'Toole wrote:
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If you examined a Chrysler from the same era I think you would find many parallels. They also featured fine design and fine quality. I am thinking in particular of a 1951 Hemi V8 New Yorker I used to own. Like the Packard it was put together with fine thread studs and nuts, not coarse thread bolts. The castings were fine grained. As Tom McCahill stated, if you examine a Chrysler piece by piece, every part looks like it costs more money than the corresponding part on competitive makes. Packard and Chrysler even bought their bodies from the same supplier.

I am familiar with Mercedes cars of the fifties and sixties. They were even better built than the Packard and Chrysler. In fact in some ways I believe they went too far in making things unnecessarily elaborate and expensive but the quality was unquestionably there.