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How Much Would You Give for This 1999 Packard Twelve Prototype?
Whenever we hear of the iconic American automaker Packard, we tend to think of beautifully crafted and technologically advanced cars from the first half of the previous century, before the Detroit brand merged with Studebaker in 1954, with the name being dropped altogether in 1958. This 1999 Packard Twelve Prototype that will soon go up for auction, doesn't exactly fit the bill of what we expect from a car bearing the famous nameplate, does it now… Read more »
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Original 1957 Packard Clipper With Factory Supercharged 4.7-liter V8 Looking For Owner
The 1956-1957 Packard Clipper was the car that was supposed to mark out Clipper as a brand in itself, despite the fact that the manufacturer was going through a really rough spot that, one year later, would spell the end of the name and leave us with...
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Guy On Motorcycle Goes Through Old Packard Factory, In Detroit
The crumbling remains of the old Packard factory in Detroit, that closed its doors in 1956, make for an eerie and dark motorcycle ride. The video you see below was shot in late October of last year in order to test both the Honda motorbike that you see...
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Gm To Hire 3,000 Employees From Hewlett-packard For Its New It Operations
After making the decision to shift its information technology-operations (IT) from outside to a more in-sourced business services model, General Motors is now moving on to the next phase by hiring people. On Thursday, the Detroit carmaker said that...
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New Owner Plans To Resurrect Studebaker With A Hybrid Twist In The 21st Century
Even though you may know the name and perhaps even seen one of its models, chances are that you were either too young to remember or not even born yet when the Studebaker Automobile Company closed shop in 1966. Fast forward to today and the company...
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Heartbeat Of America Dead? Chevrolet Kills Contract With Campbell-ewald After 91 Years
Yet another shake-up in the world of General Motors: Chevrolet has decided to take a new advertising direction, dropping Campbell-Ewald after 91 years. Cambell-Ewald was behind such memorable tag lines as "The Heartbeat of America", "Like...
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