#5699-1276 was in Warren, Ohio during the 1999 event in #1 condition. It is owned by a fellow in Tennessee and was featured in the Magnum Opus.

#5687-4224 was also in Warren during 1999 at the Magnum Opus. It is owned by a man in Ontario, Canada.

#5682-4775 was the last Packard automobile produced in Detroit. A photo of it at the end of the assembly line was published several times in The Packard Cormorant. It was originally delivered to the S-P dealer in Guntersville, Alabama. No one knows where it is today.

I think what Leeedy is talking about is on page 618 of the AQ "Packard - A History..." book, sitting next to the '56 Clipper proposal.

The bright green paint indicates that the engine/trans came from a 1956 Clipper or Executive.

Meanwhile - out at the Proving Grounds...

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According to Packard, prewar Club Sedans do not have the rear quarter windows behind the rear doors. Postwar Club Sedans are two-door cars.

On the underside of a 1955 400 in Canada, under the original hood pad, was found this lettering. Has anyone seen anything like it before?

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Yes - on the roof on the dealership at 10th and Hope Streets.

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and one more - circa 1924 in Los Angeles

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The information may be in James Ward's "The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company." Issue #125 of "The Packard Cormorant" also has an article on the events of 1956. As I recall (Ward's book is packed away at the moment) Conner Avenue was only running a single eight-hour shift Monday through Thursday, with production divided between half seniors and half juniors. At the close of business on Thursday, June 21th, the total of cars to be assembled stood at 162 units, 84 Clippers and 78 Packards. On Friday, 60 Clippers and 60 Packards were produced. On Monday, June 25th, the last 42 automobiles were assembled, with the last car off the line being a Patrician four-door sedan, #5682-4775.

A few nits to pick -- Packard never went out of business. They simply stopped making cars: Packards and Clippers in Detroit, 1956 and South Bend in 1958, Studebakers in South Bend in late-1963, Canada in 1966. Along the way they bought the Studebaker Corp. in 1954, changing their name to Studebaker-Packard Corp., changing again to Studebaker Corp. in 1962. After 1966, they made money selling items other than cars and trucks.

And, yes, there were many car clubs years ago. The Packard Club started in 1953, the Classic Car Club in 1952, and the AACA way back in 1935.