This next car is a smoking deal if you are looking at it from a dollars per pound perspective. The Packard Super Eight was a giant beast of a car that received a modern facelift to post war integrated headlight styling in 1948. It would have sold for something under $3000 in when new ($38k […]
This next car comes as a tip from Tony who writes: The 400 model arrived shortly after Packard’s doomed merger with Studebaker and is one of the last true, Detroit-built Packards. While Packard was in its death throes, it went down swinging as it finally replaced the aging Straight 8 with three V8 versions, a […]
We all love a good bargain around here and most of us probably adore orphan American cars. Luckily, those two paths cross quite frequently but rarely with something that oozes so much cool. Yes, the final iteration of the Champion was mind-numbingly conventional for Studebaker in the day but today it’s a different story. Find this […]
The Packard Motor Car company of Detroit started rolling out cars way back in 1899, but it didn’t go belly up until 1958 when the last badge engineered Studebaker rolled off an assembly line with a Packard badge…not a bad run for the average car company…quick, somebody tell Elon his little startup needs to last […]
This next car comes from tipper John H who writes: Not my car, just something I spotted on CL. It’s a rather stodgy but handsome beast in grey and chrome and white sidewalls. Looks to be very original and absolutely immaculate – 65 years old and cleaner than any car I’ve ever owned (but then […]
There is just so much wrong in this next listing, but let’s first dissect the text entered in the “title” portion of the advert. 1996 — yes, this is good, the year of manufacture; Packlin — not sure what packlin is…perhaps the crinckly bags that chitlins come in? Lincon — another thing that isn’t a […]
I’m gonna come clean with everyone here and admit that I wasn’t familiar with the name Paul Normand, until yesterday. But, Paul isn’t a Carroll Shelby or John DeLorean character who worked with big budgets, and instead is an old time hot rodder who cranks out a few cars a year. The result is that […]
The Packards of the early 1930’s were meant for those who managed not to lose all of their money in the stock market. Rather than dumb down and decontent its offerings to the adapt to the declining wealth of the general public, Packard kept offering outrageous luxury even when eating hard tack and burning cow […]
If you’re going to be a time-machine building physicist, we figured, why not drive a car with some style? No, not the time machine itself; nevermind that now, nevermind that now. Doc Brown’s personal ride in the 1950s was a 1948 Packard Custom 8 Victoria Convertible. Turns out those are hard to find, as just […]
Remember last week when I asked if the 3-wheeled Berkeley was too weird? Yeah was nothing. This next beast makes the Berkeley seem as common as a Toyota Prius in hindsight. And instead of listing it as a make-model of car with such-&-such engine, this thing is more like an engine wrapped in some polished […]