Packard Points

Mention the name Packard and a good number of automotive historians and car collectors will immediately tell you the brand was first made in 1899. Truth be told, there is a caveat that limits the application of that statement. Indeed, the first Packard automobile credited to the brotherly duo of James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard (known to friends and family as Ward and Will) saw daylight late in 1899. But it was the first mechanically self-propelled Packard