Re: The last car Henry Ford ever rode in....

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2008/9/9 12:05:40

The story around Detroit was that the Ford family and the FoMoCo folk looked high and low for a Lincoln hearse nearby, there was not one to be had, as Packard and Cadillac had the majority of that business. At one point they gave up and said, "well, a Packard will have to do, we won't have a Cadillac"

Ford and Packard always had a sort of mutual respect for each other, many people who lost their jobs at Packard were welcomed at Ford, a memo was sent out instructing managers to hire any ex-Packard employees looking for work.