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Ghastly and Pretentious! Plastering a new car with design hallmarks does not a Packard make! Steve
Posted on: 2009/12/2 21:01
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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
Posted on: 2009/12/3 23:08
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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
Posted on: 2009/12/3 23:19
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