Re: packard pickup trucks

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2007/8/28 11:34:42

Yeah, some of them are really attractive, but Packard discontinued making trucks shortly after the First World War. The ones you see are either new creations, or perhaps more often were made up by dealers for their service work from low value returns, crashed cars, and the like. Dealers of the 30s and 40s often had service trucks, especially wreckers made from old Pierce Arrows, Lincolns, Packards and the like as most of these had very strong chassis and very numerically high rear axle ratios. The half-dozen Packard pickup-style trucks I've seen in the last few years are all new creations.