Re: Packard & Hudson proximity

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2013/2/11 11:12:41

Both Marvin King and Packards1 had occasion to be at gatherings with George Romney, and asked him about the failure to join S-P into AMC, If I am recalling correctly his answer was something like "It didn't make sense to me", prehaps Packards1 can verify that, he was there.
I knew "the other son", he was my former employer's council, he really did not know much about the auto biz part of his father's life from our discussions.

They all missed the the big dance in the 1920s, that was the time to get hitched up. Every US company that survived was paired up by then, except AMC, and they were an anomoly, in SO many ways. Had Chrysler not bought them (just to get Jeep)in '87 I doubt they would have survived into today
It was all about amortizing costs, especially in body shell/platform.