Re: Is This a Packard

Posted by DavidPackard On 2021/8/24 14:10:35

Frequently I will be asked ‘Who made this car?’, and I reply ‘Packard’. I guess the person has already did a quick walk-around and had already saw the badging, because the next question goes something like ‘No no no, was it made by Ford, GM, or Chrysler?’. That begins the slightly longer discussion about all of the ‘non-big-three’ manufacturers that went out of business. I guess I can add the modern badges within the ‘big-three’ that fell out of corporate favor.

I went looking for how many US automobile manufactures have closed their doors . . . it’s an amazingly long list, see:

List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_manufacturers_of_the_United_States

Perhaps I could edit this list to remove those early ‘brass era’ marks, and again those that did not survive the depression. That might be a better list to discuss when the ‘question’ is asked.