FLEMINGS JUNKYARD PHOTO GALLERY ALBUM THREE
Even more pictures from one of the most unusual car show venues I ever attended! All pictures by your blogger, c2017. Please note show location has changed for 2017. A 1953 Packard. Once-prestigious marque driven into the ground in the late '50's by a "perfect storm" of bad decisions going back to the end of WWII. Packard was the only one of the prestigious "Three P's" (Peerless and Pierce-Arrow being the other two) to survive the Great Depression. Their Strategy: move downmarket with the "120", "Super Eight" and the inline 6-cylinder "115C" (later renamed the "110"). Cadillac used the same strategy by introducing the LaSalle and Lincoln, the 12-cylinder Zephyr. Lincoln and Cadillac also had the might of GM and Ford to shore them up. The mistake was that Packard continued to market the lower-priced models in the seller's market after WWII. They even marketed to fleet buyers, such as taxicab compa...