Cars of the Filthy Rich the Packards
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
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Great music great Cars of the rich and famous. Luxury automobiles around the 1920s
The modest Packards are the best. Packard didn't fail. They were absorbed, like many car companies.
Packard was for and beloved by the elegant, luxurious and business rich. And aspired to by so many more. Not necessarily for the 'filthy' rich, who had more choices. But filthy rich (and movie stars...) did go for top of the line Packards. The premier American luxury car maker, 1909 --through the '40's.
1955 was the last full year of production under packard management. In mid 1956 studabacker took over production. In 1957 studabaker closed the Detroit plant and moved production to South bend. Under the sudinim packard...
Almost immediately studabacker sold the patents the most noticeable is firing order balancing spechs to gm, packard held many of which led the way in modern car conveniences suck as power windows, heat, ac integrated dash, padded dashes, power seats, power steering, and power suspensions this is huge when considering Bugatti and Bently are using this desighn with some upgrades.
I saw one that was on loan from the Larz Anderson museum that had a sign noting that the car was so heavy that you could only turn the wheels when the car was moving.
Then 1950 came along and Packard didn't have a clue they built outdated junk and ugly cars and the management was pathetic.
Yes on reflection all you say is true. Their later cars were not up to par with their previous work.
It sounds like he's got an axe to grind.
My first car was a 1955 Packard Patrician and although dated in some aspects, the quality was still there. With the V8 engine running, a nickel could be balanced on its edge on the air cleaner. A fun trick, but it also showed the care that went into building the automobile.
@167curly disgruntled ex employee? 😂
In Fort Lauderdale Florida there is a classic Packard car collection, which I recommend visiting. Particularly memorable is a 1918 Ladies' Town Car and a 1940 open hearse, rather like a flatbed pick-up, and definitely a faIr weather vehicle.
they also for got to mention that the blond bombshell Jean Harlow also owned a Packard too.
The Company's official name was "The Packard Motor Car Company".
After they purchased Studebaker In 1954 they became The Studebaker Packard Corporation.
In those days people loved "The 3 P's"
Packard, Pierce - Arrow
and Peerless.
My father always drive Packards. When they went out of business he switched to Oldsmobile. He died before Olds went out of business.
I had a 1956 Packard 400 series, 2 door hardtop, topaz and bone white two tone, it came with the ultramatic push button transmission. I called the California Packard club to attempt to find someone who could repair the ultramatic trans, this is 1995 they wanted 6k but with no warranty. I ended giving the car to the Goners car club so they stripped out a perfectly original like new 56 Packard and installed a 350/350 combination drive train. So much for keeping these cars original. I will never buy an odd ball car ever again.
Great looking back at the Packard Automobile!
Some neat shots of some beautiful cars. But your Presidential history is off. Woodrow Wilson, upon leaving office, bought a Pierce-Arrow limousine from the White House fleet, then received a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost touring car as a birthday gift from friends in 1923. Warren Harding owned a Packard Twin Six, along with a Pierce-Arrow. Calvin Coolidge favored Lincolns. Herbert Hoover might have owned a Packard, but was better known for a V-16 Cadillac. FDR did have a Packard when he was governor of New York, but owing to his disability, preferred lighter, smaller cars for his own driving, Ford and Plymouth convertibles, with hand controls.
I possibly got some information from the wrong source. My apologies if this is so. It can happen on the internet.
Clark Gable was also known for his 1935 Duesenberg SSJ, a car costing 4-5 times what a fine Packard did. The second of just two built was purchased by Gary Cooper and sold several years ago for over $22,000,000! Now those are truly cars of the "Filthy Rich."
That is my next video uploading tomorrow
@@ColourThePast725 - Great, thanks!
Packard never built "junk". They were always very refined, well built, well engineered automobiles. They seriously miscalculated the post war styling, and paid the price. People who make this type of remark should see the design Cadillac was ready to put into production before the Harley fins. Worse looking than the Nash. Packard didn't have the GM, or Ford bankroll, so building mid priced cars in the 30's to survive the depression damaged their reputation. They were getting their sealegs after James Nance became President, and might have survived had they not purchased Studebaker.
Nice video - the Caribbean was introduced in 1953.
We had a '53 and I really wish we still did.
I had a 1951 330 and a 1953 Pacific convertible and looking for a 1946-1947 Custom Super Clipper Coupe.@@wholeNwon
stalin owned a Packard 12
More than 1.
ZIS-115's are usually associated with him but he did own Packards, too.
Great work 👏
What's the name of the classic music playing in the background @ the beginning of your video? Thank you, in advance! :)
Hi this is it. There is a CZcams video as well Raviv Leibzirer - Well-Tempered Clavier - Prelude in C Major BWV 846 czcams.com/video/4UgFAG5LAfM/video.html
What is the evidence for King George V owning a Packard?
Hi sorry I was wrong it was King George the VI and he only rode in one on his State visit to Canada in 1939. I misread it in a news article.
@@ColourThePast725 Yes, George the V was probably the last person who would ever have bought a 'foreign'-made car.
In 1935, his eldest son, Edward (the King who abdicated) ordered a Canadian-made McLaughlin-Buick limousine, probably to spite his fiercely-patriotic dad. That said, Canada was still part of the British Empire at that time. However, George V died before it arrived in the UK.