“Ask the Man Who Owns One: An Illustrated History of Packard Advertising” by Arthur W. Einstein, Jr. Imaginative advertising sells. And few automobile companies were better at the task of getting the...
“Ask the Man Who Owns One: An Illustrated History of Packard Advertising” by Arthur W. Einstein, Jr. Imaginative advertising sells. And few automobile companies were better at the task of getting the...
Kanter Auto Products facility at 662 Myrtle Ave. in Boonton, NJ. Photos by James From, courtesy Kanter Auto Products. Vintage parts giant Kanter Auto Products is in the process of consolidating its o...
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Es ist – kompliziert… Die Geschichte von Packard erzählen zu wollen, ist schwierig, sehr schwierig. Ein paar Beispiele? Als Packard 1958 seine Tore schliessen musste, war noch die 56. Serie auf dem M...
Photo courtesy National Packard Museum. While the collections and the archives at the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, suffered no damage from a pair of related vandalism incidents at the mus...
From the seller’s description: Very Nice 1954 packard Convertible . Not the Caribbean, just the convertible. 32000 miles, was out of service a number of years, last inspeciton sticker on the car is 1...
Photo by David Conwill. Anybody unlucky enough to get a noise ticket from the city of Royal Oak during this month’s Woodward Dream Cruise is getting a reprieve thanks to one lawyer’s work, according ...
Mock convertible 1955 Packard 400 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The first owner purchased this car new from Packard of New Haven, CT. He owned it for quite a few years and ...
I briefly considered scrapping the entire Four-Links format this week to focus entirely on Lucas Reilly’s longread on Clair Patterson, the chemist/geologist who for decades doggedly pursued the evide...
Photo courtesy PackardPlantProject on Instagram. Three years after a real estate developer bought the remains of Detroit’s Packard plant with grand ambitions – and nearly 63 years after Packard vacat...
Photos courtesy New York governor’s office. Rather than peruse the latest executive cars and limousines for its officials and diplomats to wave at crowds in future parades, the state of New York deci...
All original 1949 Packard Eight club sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This has 12,000 actual miles. 3 owners from new. This is one of the best preserved cars, from this ...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
From the seller’s description: Selling my 1954 Packard Henney Junior Ambulance, the car is partially finished and I’ve done the hard work of finding all the obscure and impossible to find parts. As g...
Photo via Packard Proving Grounds. Like that other remnant of the Packard automobile company near downtown Detroit, the Packard Proving Grounds could have been abandoned to decay for decades. Or the ...
What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bot...
Documented from new 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a true, two-owner since new, 49,000 mile Custom Victoria Convertibl...
Uptown Packard as it appeared in 2014. Image courtesy Google Maps. One of the last Albert Kahn buildings – and perhaps the last vestige of Packard automobiles – left standing in New York City remains...
1952 Packard 250 convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: Very nice and excellent running Packard convertible. This car runs and drives excellent. The car’s original 327 straight 8 was co...
Photo by Mike Boening. Along with art galleries, a nightclub, apartments, and a spa, the group behind the redevelopment of the former Packard plant in Detroit may also include a museum dedicated to P...
Greg Lynn’s “Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation.” Image via Greg Lynn FORM. While a Peruvian developer cleans up the former Packard plant in Detroit and readies it for its next iterati...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can. ...
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he p...