Re: Was this typical of new 1950's cars?

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2014/9/4 17:55:57

There were a lot of complaints of poor quality from all car makers in the fifties. It was a time when many new designs were tried out, some of them didn't work too well, and a time of general cheapening of quality.

To get to specifics, was this amount of repairs to a brand new, expensive car typical? I don't know but if all 55 - 56 Packards were this bad I can see why people stopped buying Packards.

Pity the poor sucker who traded his 1955 or 56 Clipper on a 57 Chrysler or Ford product, both of whom had bad quality problems that year.