Re: Are people insane???

Posted by Peter Hartmann On 2008/11/1 11:37:43

I am shocked and offended at the posts in this "thread". Those '55 Packards were MAGNFICENT monuments to what Packard could do if it really put its heart into what it was trying to do.

In fact..they are such "monuments" to determination, look how they influenced the sale of the '56 Packards. Even greater "monuments" to what Packard was trying to do to itself. Show a little admiration and respect..folks...

If you people KNEW what you were talking about, you'd know that GM and FORD and CHRYSLER were SO taken back and impressed by those sales figures of those high quality post 1950 Packards, that by 1957 they "threw in the towel" and gave up, and started car clubs for their own brands...making "conversion kits" so you could install that brilliant Packard ULTRAMATIC transmission in GM, FORD, and CHRYSLER cars... (to improve reliability and performance...of course....!)