Re: Packard Used Car values

Posted by HH56 On 2011/11/21 15:39:19

My father had the same thoughts. In 60-61 I wanted to trade the 51 Packard in on a 56 that was on the Chevy lot in the worst way. I can't begin to count the ways he said NO--mostly because the dealers were gone. I don't remember seeing English Fords or Vauxhalls unless they were Americanized & sold under a different name.

In the small town I came from in that time frame, foreign cars in the high school parking lot consisted of several VW bugs, a Nash Metropolitan, an Opel station wagon which I think was sold by the Buick dealer and a Renault Dauphine. Nothing else foreign I remember in town except a doctor that drove a Triumph roadster and a lady with a Jag -- I think it was an XK120. The Metro was the most fun--8 teenagers could squeeze in but don't ask how. The kid that drove his grandparents Renault didn't get many riders because all too frequently, the passengers had to get out and help push or the car was sitting empty on the side of the road. I don't know if they ever did figure out why that car was so temperamental but he and it moved out of town our senior year.