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I was reading history and I gradually realized many owners of Packard were rather questionable in moral, especially among the social elites or head of state (I don't have to name the obvious few)

But it is really funny when I see how the dictator Rafael Trujillo put a Packard hood ornament on his Chevy




Ironically his assassins were driving a more upscale car than him. An Oldsmobile



I think the Alfred Sloan's social ladder was kind of broken there already!

(Obviously, I think the super narrow 1957-1958 Packard models were a bit difficult to justify buying for someone in his position. But I still find the combination kind of odd, as he didn't buy a more upscale car, not even a DeSoto)

That's a Bugler Swan as sold at one time for very cheap by JC Whitney and other mail order companies. Nothing whatsoever to do with Packard's Cormorant.

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A somewhat unfortunate formulation. On the one hand, it suggests (surely unintentionally) a connection between Packard owners and immoral people. Moreover, industrial products are neither moral nor immoral in themselves. The fact that a dictator once sat on a folding garden chair is no reason to lock up all folding garden chairs.

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