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It’s interesting to consider various ways in which the Packard Motor Car Company might have survived, such as with the Studebaker/Packard body-sharing program planned for 1957 with an all-new exterior or perhaps buying sheetmetal shells from Lincoln. I think that under the right circumstances the Packard Executive might have helped save Packard. There’s a good reason why it didn’t.

Packard was in decent shape when it introduced its first all-new postwar cars

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