Re: Ok, I'm calling your bluff. Show me how Packards were "better".
Posted by HH56 On 2012/7/12 21:21:27
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Tim Cole wrote:
There was one ad series that impressed me. It was the 1938 ads that offered to let prospects take Packard cars away for the weekend. Of course to get one you had to be in the social register, but letting a prospect take a car for an unlimited mileage test drive is putting your money where your mouth is.
And off the showroom floor the 16th series was good.
Although, that new V-16 from Cadillac just left everything in the dust. A giant that lasted three years.
I'm not sure some dealers didn't do that into the 50's. I remember more than once Dad took his car to Albuquerque for service and sometimes it had to stay a day or two. He drove home in a demonstrator. Of course, he might have told them he was thinking of buying it.
One of those times was the first time I saw a V8 model and fell in lust. Think dad actually wanted it & no question I wanted him to buy it. Mother said it was too flashy and people would be staring at her when she drove. Packard might have been about done too so maybe a partial reason but anyway, back it went and his 51 came home.
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