As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...
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...
After a great hue and cry this past week, Ford’s UK branch decided not to scrap a 1959 Standard Ten that somebody turned in for the country’s cash for clunkers scheme. * The Vintagent this week surve...
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 ...
Singer, songwriter, actor, and television host Glen Campbell died on August 8 after a protracted battle with Alzheimer’s disease. One of Campbell’s roles that few remember is Datsun pitchman; as Japa...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Despite the loss of a major financial backer for his renovation of the once-abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, owner Fernando Palazuelo said he intends to continue...