The Packard Standard Eight 633 offered seven body types. The new Packard Standard Eight offered new luxuries and a number of mechanical improvements that made them most outstanding. The 1929 fiscal year was a record year for the Packard Motor Car Company. Net sales were approximately $107,542,000 while net profit was $25,912,000. Both the net sales and net profit figures were the highest ever and the company's unprecedented sales volume had demanded further plant expansion in a complex which already contained seventy-nine buildings (The Packard building still stands today).
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CCM Rod Shop introduces their newest product for 1933-1934 ford roadsters and coupes. Their 1933-1934 Glove box door (non functioning) is machined from a solid piece of 5” X ľ” thick 6061-T6 aluminum. The glove box door matches their 1933-1934 Ford car dash panel and is the perfect way to finish off your 33-34’s dash. The glove box door fits exactly into the original opening so modifying your dash is not required. The glove box door can be ordered with or with out a hole for mounting a clock. As with most of their gauge panels the glove box door can also be ordered with or with out ribs, Bead Blasted center with a polished outer lip, or fully polished by hand to show quality mirror finish.
One of the oldest streets in Detroit, Michigan is Woodward Avenue. Woodward Avenue was named after Augustus B. Woodward, a Detroit connection since 1805. Woodward Avenue was designed to be the most important street which connects with GrandRiver, Gratiot, and Jefferson. This planning was done by Judge Augustus Woodard back in the early days when Detroit was a healthy economic base and investment capital for the emerging automobile industry.
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The General Motors Autorama was the perfect event for a post-war American audience ready to take giant steps into a future beckoning with optimism. An outgrowth of GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan’s yearly industrial luncheons at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the Motorama dazzled the public with displays of experimental prototypes, concept vehicles and flagship models. Mecum is proud to present four General Motors classics whose debut at the 1953 Motorama made automotive history, and which today are among America’s most revered vintage automobiles: the Buick Skylark Convertible, Oldsmobile Fiesta Convertible, Cadillac Eldorado Convertible and the Corvette Roadster. We invite you to visit our special Motorama-inspired display and step back in time to a world of automotive wonder and excitement.
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While all but forgotten today, the Nash motor vehicle had a production run of nearly 50 years. Never a threat to the big three, the hardy Nash was still able to win over millions of drivers with such automotive firsts like the seat belt, unibody construction and an innovative
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,
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