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Ghastly and Pretentious!

Plastering a new car with design hallmarks does not a Packard make!

Steve

far more impresive would have been an entire revamping of the whole car, not just body mods. a unique suspension and some engine upgrades like turbos or a supercharger would have probably stirred a little more interest. but seeing this and other "modern renditions" makes me smile to know that packard died before all of their vehicles became lifeless blobs of plastic. god forbid they would most likely have have some kind of suv/ truck as well. but honestly this is just my opinion...and you know what they say about those.

Mike

One of the reasons we like Packards is that they never were forced to stoop to make cars with opera lights, half vinyl tops, red crushed velour upholstery, emission controls or digital clocks.

There is a saying in the classical music business-"Better to stop 5 years too early than 5 minutes too late"

Regards


John Harley

Friends

Just as I finished my last post, I remembered the story of Buick and Packard in the early 20's, around 1924. Buick had taken to building cars with radiator shells obviously imitating Packard. Other makes did it too , but Buick was the only marque any one heard of.

Packard, a much smaller company, got GM to stop. I've seen speculation about letters from lawyers and such. Don't know about that.

What Packard did do was to run a series of ads "Only Packard can build a Packard".

The Buicks changed in appearance pretty quickly

"Nuff said

Regards


John Harley