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20/04/2025 11:49 pm
Here is a great old color print advertisement for the stylish 1946 Packard. There was pent-up demand from World War II for beautiful brand-new cars and this big Packard fits the bill perfectly !
21/04/2025 2:36 am
simple effective persuasive method of getting the message across. Here's what we want you to buy in all its glory!
thanks Mike
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21/04/2025 5:25 am
Oh my! Just look at all those people who have gathered around this Clipper as it emerges from its Packard origins. Everyone is smiling, even the policeman controlling the crowd. Man; I better get one of these pronto!
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Topic starter
21/04/2025 6:10 am
That Packard factory just shortly before had been producing thousands of the Rolls-Royce designed Merlin V-1650 aircraft engines, as well as marine engines for PT boats.
Our opponents in that war were stunned at the vast American production capabilities. We could produce hundreds of thousands of automobiles in peacetime ..... and hundreds of thousands of other material for the Allied war effort.
Then it was back to making millions of automobiles, etc, for the U.S. consumer !
Tony Perrone reacted
21/04/2025 3:27 pm
Artistic license, notice the shrunken occupants of the Clipper.
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Topic starter
21/04/2025 11:36 pm
Lol, Bob ! But perhaps this Packard sedan has just been presented to circus midget performers for their previous work on the "Wizard of Oz" movie ......... 
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