Re: Jack Palance Prestone antifreeze Packard tv commercial

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/2/20 17:50:47

Amen. Your pappy gave y'all good advice. Got the same from my parents. Didn't hurt us in the least. We built bizarre wooden gocarts, raced them downhill with no adult supervision, never got hurt, and you never saw obese kids when we were growing up.

Regarding OwenDynamo's observation that you have to check the VIN #, that's right, would tell you whether '46 or '47. A glance at the interior would determine whether Super or Custom Super, since Packard ads and the owner's manual considered them the same car. Some of the 21st Series ads are downright ambiguous regarding Super or Custom Super. Some ad copy reads Super but pictures a Custom Super with its standard fender skirts (optional on Super) and absence of model script on the body.
I've owned my '47 2103 since ten years after this commercial appeared.

Which is why i asked if anyone met Palance, saw his car, perhaps talked Packard with him. He had some nice cars, drove them, but avoided the concours silliness. Like Artie Shaw, Tony Bennett and others, Palance painted later on, knew John Lennon, Yoko Ono, briefly appeared in one of their movies, circa 1969-70. If he ever rebuilt his transmission or differential, or reinstalled them himself, we know how he kept in shape to do those one-arm push ups at the Oscars.