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In a previous post, old Chiang (meaning the father, as his son was often addressed as Chiang the junior)'s limousine in 1920s was posted

packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=7884

I was going through the archives and I found his Packard in later years. It cannot be confirmed or denied if it was shipped to Nankin then to Taiwan, or the vehicle ended up in Taiwan directly.

(After Packard was discontinued, Chiang kept using Cadillac for the rest of his life. He was standing on a Cadillac Eldorado in the official Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Song when the lyrics was right at, anti-communist for justice, ironically. I guess Cadillac Eldorado was exactly the opposite of communism)

Later on ROC (Republic of China) Presidents largely kept using large American sedans (Cadillac Fleetwood in the 90s, Lincoln Town Car later) until car sick became too big of a problem, so they switched to BMWs. I started to drive cars in a Lincoln Mark VIII, then it went backwards to Fleetwood, and Packard.

This car in the museum was near the sea so corrosion was a bit bad

I was born and grew up in an era when and where such things became fashionable (KMT memorabilia, Romanov memorabilia such. Many kids around my age and younger had crush on Alexei Romanov and their parents were asking around what to do with it. Those kids back then wore sailor suit or such and insisted going to traditional royalist restaurants, some even begged parents to take them to visit Peterhof Palace. One such kid, after growing up, he laid flower at monument of Kolchak two years ago)

Taking all that into consideration, I guess I am not that bad by having one Packard

























They just wrote a lot of zeros in the value of the car





Photos come from this post,
7car.tw/articles/read/3032

I was reading this article about ROC state car,

zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F ... E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%BA%A7%E8%BB%8A

lee teng hui's Fleetwood




And convertible for the military parade