Almost as bad as watching them try to pitch Kamala to the American public! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Another victim falls to the 'Big Three'...😢 I love ❤️ the Packards of the '30's especially... If not for government bailouts, we might now be left with only Ford...🤔

Such intense nostalgia for a time so many years before I was born. Quite a different time & place!

I never knew this existed. Thank you for sharing!

I felt the exterior styling of the Clipper sedan was outstanding though I wasn't keen on the interior.

I have to keep watching this repeatedly, as not to miss any nuance, that is finally revealed. Crazy amazing!!!

Amazing Restoration that brought everyone BACK TO LIFE!!!

Some are work looks more like Dodge of 1960

The engineering achievement of the last Packard was great, but............

Packard was the Rolls Royce of American cars!

4:20 Take a close look at those crankshafts. Both appear to be cross-plane designs. I'm not an engineer, but my understanding is that cross-planes give better balance. The inline appears to be a five main bearing design, same number as by Subaru four-cylinder has.

I'm sold. Where's the nearest Packard Sales Agent?

A three hour introduction A three hour introduction The economy started getting rough The clipper was tossed Where's Ginger when you need her?

I'm so glad to see that this video has surfaced. I'm the young kid throughout this video trying to help the guy taking the video keep people out of his shot. We had spoke about 6 years ago, talking about getting this video converted. Glad to see it has been.

You gotta go to 🇨🇺 Cuba nowadays to find one

We had a 1939 120, a 1949 Super Eight, and a 1951 Patrician 400. Each succeeding model was more refined. My favorite features are: 1939 interior space; 1949 front grille with matching rear trim, 1951 ultramatic transmission.

Bring Packard back!

Wrong aspect ratio. 16:9 when it should be 4:3. Everything looks stretched out sideways.

Say no more! Let's go back to leaf springs and L head engines!

Maybe repost this without the awful colorization? So distracting.

18:00 1937: That year, the Packard Rifle Club shot 3 Cadillacs, 2 Pierce Arrows, 14 Ford V8s and an unspecified number of foreign cars.... Peep Ow ow ow, I looooove the One Twenty two tone coupes, they're sooo cute and elegant at the same time ! And those post war Super 8's.... Wow ! Final Peep

My GGGrandfather wouldn't buy anything but Studebaker Wagons . Grandfather bought nothing but Studebaker Cars . I have a 64 Avanti R2 as my pride and joy.

So sad indeed !

The pregnant elephant it was referred as, back in the day😯🫣🤫

A big mouthed guy is the best description of Hitler I’ve ever heard, and describes trump perfectly also

My Mom's first car, received as a birthday present from her first husband, was the newly streamlined, designed by Dutch Darrin/first year of production, 1941 Packard Clipper 4 door sedan. It had a 356 CID 180 HP straight-eight engine. For 1941 that was the most powerful engine of any American production car and used even in the Packard 180 Super limousine. It also had a 3 speed manual transmission with overdrive (three-on-the-tree shifting replaced the floor shift as standard on nearly all American cars by 1940). It had an all black exterior and grey mohair interior. Radio, turn signals, clock, real wood dash and interior door trim, and heater/defroster were standard on Packards, optional or not available on lesser brands. The wide white side-wall Rayon tires, fog lights, spotlight, and exterior windshield visor were OEM/dealer added options. Top speed was 120 MPH. This car climbed Mt. Washington in N. H., and was driven from Boston, MA. to Washington, D. C. 18 years before the Interstate Highway System had been completed! It was a great car. As a luxury car brand along with Cadillac and Lincoln, it sold for about three times as much as the low--priced Big 3 (Chevrolet, Ford, and Plymouth).

That 1957 Packard (Studebaker--Packard) Clipper was a nice looking car. Thank you for sharing. ❤👍😊 Thank you for sharing. Those vinyl seats were so much nicer than the wool broadcloth and "Mohair" (trade name for a type of wool used in autos) used during the 1930's/1940's/very early 1950's

Thanks for sharing

I believe this is from late, late 1956, or early, early 1957 since the cars shown at the end are ‘57 models. However, the cars in the beginning and middle are from 1955 (footage probably is from 1954) since I see a ‘55 Chevrolet, ‘55 Pontiac, ‘55 Oldsmobile.

While most people weren't totally impressed with the 1957 Packard Clipper, even the dealers acknowledged the new Packard was better than the alternative--which was no Packard at all. It should be noted the "Clipper" name was dropped for 1958. In fact, there were no other model names than the "Packard Sedan," "Packard Hardtop,' "Packard Station Wagon," and "Packard Hawk."

If only it was enough to save Packard...😢❤

There's another minute or two to the beginning.

Its hard to believe that a few bad corporate decisions took down such a great automobile

What a great Packard timeline of people and Packards 👌👏

This is Packard’s Swan Song. 😢

Packards were utterly amazing jewels of engineering, often clothed with the most beautiful bodies of the times. Modern viewers have little to compare them to. I know times change but nothing like these gorgeous motorcars will ever be produced again. Automotive legends. Thanks from the UK, great video.

I Can't thank you ENOUGH for these wonderful Packard videos😂❤😂❤!!!!

Take a good look at the dealers in the audience. At least half of them knew that was an bogus product, so they flew the coop and signed up to become EDSEL dealers ! I would have too....as I would have rather sold the loser Edsel than the losers that Studebaker produced. Anything associated with Studebaker was a Disgrace to the Packard company

They say that Mr.Packard bought his first car from a Mr.Winton. I wonder if it was THAT Mr. Winton who went on to develop Diesel engines for locomotives.

How lucky I am to have a red 1953 Caribbean

The “Y” Job show car very evident in the Buick’s grille - unfortunately.

5:12 "The going away look of the Packard Clipper....." The most accurate statement in the whole presentation, unfortunately.

Claiming that rear coil springs require a torque tube and that Hotchkiss Drive allows for a better ride is just so much hype. Neither is true. Claims that the L head is better were actually accepted by many in the early 40s, but by the end of the war, it was becoming obvious that the valve in head configuration was going to win out despite it's disadvantage in noise.

Actually, the straight 8 really is the smoothest. It's negatives are it's length and it's long twistable crankshaft. Oldsmobile and Pontiac both went to huge 3 inch crank journals on their biggest engines in the late 60s. Imagine how big and heavy the journals would have to br on a straight 8 of the same size.

The introduction of the Lark temporarily resuscitated Studebaker. But when Ford, GM and Chrysler entered the compact car market, it was a slow death for Studebaker. Mismanagement, overly generous union contracts and not being financially able to compete against the Big 3 sealed their fate. Sad end to a once proud company.

Serving sandwiches and punch at a new model year debut by the executive's wives, no less, says a lot about Packard's financial situation.

Even this warmed-over Studebaker was already 5 years old. No way to disguise the center box of the 3 box design. That said, they did a nice job of retooling what they could front and rear, and at an expense both companies hadn't been used to; each doing this or that every year or so, but not both a fairly major front and rear sheetmetal update.

Those dealers had to know these ugly studebakers were doomed for failure my god they’re ugly compared with the 56’s and the competition

Great find!

Great video, thanks