Could The Legendary Packard Brand be About to Return?
- Editor OGN Daily
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Founded all the way back in 1899, the Packard Motor Car Company was one of America's very first automobile manufacturers.
For the next 60 years, it was considered a high-end, luxury brand, pumping out handsome designs. They were sleek, comfortable, and gave other upscale American cars, like Cadillacs, a run for their money.
Then, in the late 1950s, the brand went bust. A new Packard hasn't been made since '58, and the marque itself was retired a year later. But after all this time, there is hope that brand-new Packards - well, brand-new productions of old Packards - could indeed be gracing streets again soon.
In 2019, a luxury watchmaker named Scott Andrews bought the rights to the brand. It's going to take a little while to get all the pieces in place (like, say, a factory), but the intention is absolutely there. So if you ever wanted to live it up like it's 1932, your chance may be here soon.
Hopefully, Packards will be driving out of history and back onto roads in the near future. Now that Scott Andrews owns the rights, he is currently intending to make a low-volume run of the legendary Packard Victoria, a gorgeous two-door convertible. Since he actually has the original blueprints - 135,000 of them, in fact - these will be exact reproductions in all their early 20th century splendour.
When might these new (old) cars be coming? Nothing is certain but, as they say, time will tell. No car brand should go unremembered, but Packard in particular holds an important place in automotive history. It's an American treasure, and it deserves to be better known than it is today. Maybe, if some dazzling Victorias start overtaking Cybertrucks on the highway, its legacy will be restored for a whole new generation.