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I'd love a Packard. Hopefully they can pull this off.

My grandmother's sister and her husband were well-to-do and had a Packard in the 50's. To this day it was the most luxurious car I've ridden in. I was just a kid with little to compare it to but the class was just obvious. I only rode in it once but it was like a wonderland.

Some years back I got to see and sit in a Packard hearse. (Not so strange, my father was a funeral director). It was absolutely the classiest way you could have been carried to the cemetery that I have ever seen. It far out shone my dad's Cadillacs. There are professional car collectors that own these hearses and flower cars and they are all custom built and quite spendy but that Packard topped them all.

Dad in his Packard

That would be very cool to have.

I don’t want to sound like a downer, just thinking about the regulatory rules today. Take the common TPMS, required for a number of years.

Yeah, airbags could be added, anything is doable for a price. I know there are allowances if the car was made before the mandates, but now these are new cars.

Then I wonder if potential buyers have mostly aged out? Kinda like the Model 12 pump shotgun on the rack at the gun show.

Yes I know there are niche industries in various areas, firearms, vehicles, whatever. It does help to turn a profit periodically.

I do wish them well, yes a new one would have that high cool factor.

^ I believe there's also exceptions for low volume mfgs, that allow them to get around some regulations

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
^ I believe there's also exceptions for low volume mfgs, that allow them to get around some regulations

Indeed the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015 allows a builder to construct up to 325 cars per year.
My uncle owned a 1955 Packard in the early 1960's. We would ride around in it looking at Christmas lights. Great memories of my aunt, uncle and the car.

That’s a cool story but the new Packards will only go to wealthy car collectors. You and I will never have one. But I guess they’ve always been cars for the well-to-do crowd.

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Originally posted by SPWAMike0317:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
^ I believe there's also exceptions for low volume mfgs, that allow them to get around some regulations

Indeed the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015 allows a builder to construct up to 325 cars per year.
My uncle owned a 1955 Packard in the early 1960's. We would ride around in it looking at Christmas lights. Great memories of my aunt, uncle and the car.

Though I don't think they've produced any for sale yet, I think this is what DMC is leveraging for planned new production DeLorean
Then all the hyper exotics, as well.

This is a restored classic for sale listed on their website. It is the cheapest at 209k. A V12 is over 400k.

Beautiful cars even if its the Musk and Bezos of the world who can own them. They even have a 1965 Shelby GT, classic Ferraris and my favorite classic car, a Duesenberg for sale.

If I decide that I need a ninth vehicle,
That might very well work to fill a void.

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Dad in his Packard

I WILL NEVER BE THIS COOL. . .

SigForum: Where lust and envy are virtues, not sins.

^^^^
It's not envy. If someone on the forum bought one, we'd all celebrate with them, ask what their Karma was etc. LOL.

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Dad in his Packard

I WILL NEVER BE THIS COOL. . .

That's a freekin cool picture no doubt!

If I had the money I would buy one in a heartbeat.
The older cars like that had style.
If I could I would buy a Duesenberg as well.

My Dad's first car was a gift from his Grandmother, a 1929 Packard Victoria with the "light 6". BTW Great Grandmother drove Pierce Arrows in the teens and moved to Packard in the 20's. Great Grandfather always told her to pick out the best she could find no matter the cost. He liked a car with some speed so it was mostly Marmons, because they could do the Ton.

There is also the link to Medina, Ohio where my Dad had a door manufacturing plant.

So I really do hop they can pull this off. The biggest issue is sourcing items like tires and wheels, these are sizes that were somewhat rare in the 30's and are close to unobtanium today.