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Packard..... Plymouth they both start with P. Must be the same.

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I remember a conversation I had with my uncle who was co-owner of a Ford dealership in Greeley, CO that he'd had heard rumors at the Detroit Auto show in 1954 that one of Chrysler's hoped for benefits in buying Briggs was a "shotgun marriage" with Packard. He did say he had only heard it there and I had never heard of it anywhere else.
It would kinda make sense as Chrysler didn't have a stand alone luxury make like GM and Ford since Imperial was often referred to as the CHRYSLER-Imperial.
My uncle didn't put much faith in the story.