I believe that the location is the factory branch on Jefferson in Detroit. Note that all three cars have Illinois plates.

Tonight, Sunday, Nov. 10 at 9:00 pm EST, on CNN, will be a program "Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown" which will feature the Packard plant, past & present. Be sure to tune in!

Your car is a very late one. #5687-4224 was the very last "400" built that year (or ever). So your #5687-4121 was about 100 from the last "400" built. I would guess that it was produced around May or early-June of 1956.

That's a different company. The Ohio Automobile Company was formed in 1900 to build Packard automobiles. The name was changed to Packard Motor Car Company in 1902. PMCC moved to Detroit in 1903.

The Packard Electric company remained in Warren, Ohio. After the deaths of William and James Packard, PE was sold to General Motors around 1928.

And, PMCC =never= went out of business. They just stopped building automobiles. PMCC purchased the Studebaker Corporation 1954 (they called it a "merger), changing the name to the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. In 1962, the name was changed to the Studebaker Corporation; they were still the same surviving company. In later years the company merged with Worthington (becoming Studebaker-Worthington), and later merged with Wagner Electric.

For more information about the later attempts to revise the Packard name and car, read "Packard -- A History of the Motor Car and the Company, 1959 to 2008" in The Packard Cormorant #131.

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What material was used that secured the long-grain to the metal section of the roof? Some sort of lead?

And - most important - where does one purchase it now?

I haven't seen that magazine, but I do know that the Predictor was restored by LaVine Restorations in Nappanee, Indiana.

Attached is a photo - taken from a history-of-Ghia book, of the Predictor under construction in 1955. Pretty darn neat, I think.

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Ah yes. That was the event where PAC members brought out over 1,000 Packards to Warren. PI members brought out about 40 Packards to Cleveland.

Will see you all on Sunday...

"The Packard Cormorant" #126 (Spring 2007) has an article by Mr. Pushbutton on the Conner Ave plant, and a two-page layout of the plant from 1955. The original layout came from the Feb. 1955 issue of "Finish" magazine. Can't show them here because of the copyright, you know.