Re: The Greatest Packards of Them All

Posted by Tim Cole On 2022/7/16 17:32:54
On the Conner Avenue thing refresh my memory. Packard was doing its own stamping before they had to make bodies with all steel rooves? Or were they making bodies for the all steel limousines prior to the Briggs deal?

I've never heard a satisfactory argument either way for Conner. I knew people whose parents and grandparents worked for Packard and management was in their words "behind the scenes". Maybe they thought the Conner plant would cut down on operating costs given the Senior lines were gone. Maybe Nance wanted the place to look more like a refrigerator plant. I don't how many cars were coming out of there when it was Chrysler. If Chrysler was turning out more cars there than Packard then it might look wise.

The old Dodge main plant kept running long after Packard was gone and the line there was a drug infested mess. Management felt that drug addicts only want enough money for drugs. They sold the stuff to employees.

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