Kauft Vorkriegs-Klassiker! Weiterhin.
Eine kurze Betrachtung der Marktlage Sechs Jahre ist es nun auch wieder her, dass wir schon einmal einen Geschichte mit dem Titel «Kauft Vorkriegs-Klassiker!» verfasst hatten, zu lesen: hier . Und ne...
Eine kurze Betrachtung der Marktlage Sechs Jahre ist es nun auch wieder her, dass wir schon einmal einen Geschichte mit dem Titel «Kauft Vorkriegs-Klassiker!» verfasst hatten, zu lesen: hier . Und ne...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
It’s a 1954 Packard Henny Junior Ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. What’s that? The seller’s description offers a good explanation (and click through to the ad for all 100 photos): So first off, wh...
1941 Packard 160 Club Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Full ground up (frame off) original restoration. This Packard 160 coupe is a wonderful looking and driving car! Th...
All images via Packard Proving Grounds. During World War II, Packard opened up its proving grounds in Shelby Township, outside of Detroit, for testing one of the few vehicles at the time sturdier and...
All images courtesy Fred Hudson. In 1956, with the Studebaker-Packard merger complete and the new company looking to bolster the buying public’s confidence in its ability to build and sell cars that ...
Owner Bill Stanley showed his ultra-rare 1935 Chrysler Airstream C6, which replaced the Airflow before it. It’s powered by a 95-horsepower straight-six flathead displacing 241.5 cubic inches. This se...
The 2019 Zenith Award winner was this fabulous 1931 Buick owned and restored by David and Susan Landow. This past Memorial Day weekend I had the distinct honor of being asked to judge the AACA’s Zeni...
Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...
One of three limos built for Packard executives in 1941, the car’s trunk housed an enormous air conditioning unit. My brother tried to sell the Packard at the 1972 Hershey, Pennsylvania, classic car ...
The Packard plant in August 2018. Image courtesy Google Street View. The collapsed production-line bridge at the former Packard plant may turn out to be a trifling worry to the current owner of the p...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
Image courtesy Google Street View. At one point, wrapped in a graphic depicting it sans crumbling brick or rusted steel trusses, the bridge crossing Detroit’s East Grand Boulevard served as the emble...
Photos courtesy Gooding & Company. The De Lorean is, of course, intrinsically linked to the Back to the Future franchise. Aside from its role as the time machine central to each film’s plot, it has t...
Dave Lockard, who we met at Hershey a few years back, will take home a pair of AACA National awards for his pair of Packard World War I trucks, as we learned this week on the WWI Centennial Commissio...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
Rust-free 1954 Packard Cavalier for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: While this may not appear cosmetically as anything special, this Packard is VERY special for its low productio...
This 1935 Packard One-Twenty two-door sedan called “Lucille” was built by Rooster’s Rod Shop in Gaffney, South Carolina. The classic is powered by a 6.2 L LS3 V8 that makes 430 horsepower at 5,900 rp...
After a special unveiling and tumultuous overture by a military band, Pan American is shown to the public for the first time at 1952 International Motor Sports Show in New York City. Queen of the sho...
Testbed recreation 1929 Packard 626 speedster for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a faithful recreation of the Packard Motor Car Company’s factory rolling engineering tes...
The Classic Car Club of America Museum reported earlier this month that the restoration of Margaret Dunning ‘s 1930 Packard 740 Custom roadster is now complete. * Kaiser’s Henry J, as Mac’s Motor Cit...
Photograph by Thomas A. DeMauro. No single factor ever sinks an automaker. The struggle between profits and losses typically has its roots in circumstances suffered from decisions made years, if not ...
1955 Lincoln Capri Coupe (top image by Richard Lentinello); 1955 Packard Clipper Custom Sedan (bottom image by the author). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
1905 Packard Model N Runabout (top; image by author); 1910 Elmore Model 36 Demi-tonneau (bottom; image by Terry Shea). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but...