Re: Were they making packard parts in 1962?

Posted by sanddoc On 2015/7/24 8:47:53

the one gentlemen is correct up until about 1973 or
around that time, Automotive companies in America
had to stock parts for ten years.
This was changed to 5 years in the early 70's
and the onset of bigger numbers of imports.
This was a great boon to the unions, can you
imagine building, and stocking all those parts,
you can understand why some parts of cars lasted
why longer then they should have, just the cost
of changing over is staggering.
But when Packard went out of business the company
was long obligated. There was no Packard company.
No wonder Henry made the Model T for 19 years...
One thing we as owners of these old cars must remember
is that, they did not build cars for "collectors"
There was no car clubs back then, and of course
when you owned a Packard they did not plan on you doing
your own work, after all Packard was the predominant
luxury Car company.
After Chevron shipping scrapped their US flagged
ships and I was out of a job, I opened a "small"
auto shop and kinda worked only on pre 1940 cars
from Stude's to Packard's and even some later models.
any year Fords, up to 74... and orphan cars.
I've worked on 1912 Studebaker runabout, 28 Packard
25 Flint, 54 Packard, 1919 Cleveland, 36 Pierce Arrow's
(2) etc: I'm out of the business now, I'm not old
just that the recession killed me figured I can live
better not working... hahaha
sorry to bore you with all that.