# Packard's innovations

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 20, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000 "2022-10-20T18:39:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/1 "2022-10-20T18:39:25Z")

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The younger forum members may not be familiar with all of the automotive innovations that were introduced by Packard.

> **[Imagining a world without Packard](https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/features/imagining-a-world-without-packard)**
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> Without Packard the automotive world would not be what it is today. Packard had a history of innovation.

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**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/2 "2022-10-20T19:24:10Z")

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Have a bud picked up a bunch of new in box car clocks, maybe packard don’t recall. Here is a packard car clock on ebay.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/a/4/a48bf5a8d950aff4b5f835cb55c87cc300b66e7b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/3 "2022-10-20T19:24:11Z")

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My parent’s owned a Packard. I liked the body styling myself, but where it really shined? Backfiring! I could always hear a series of loud “Bam, bam ,bam’s” whenever they left to run an errand in their Packard. The neighborhood kids thought this pretty cool.

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/4 "2022-10-20T20:55:02Z")

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I remember seeing Packards as taxicabs. Before WW II, Packards were s prestige make. When the Packard Clipper was introduced around 1940 and then was the only model after WWII, Packard lost its status. Packard would have, in my opinion, been better off to have just called the junior model “Clipper” without the Packard name.  
One feature I remember in the Packards of the late 1940s was the electric clutch which freed the driver of depressing the clutch when shifting gears.

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/5 "2022-10-20T21:07:06Z")

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Yes, Packard really struggled in the 10 years after WWII. We had a '52 when I was VERY young, never came across as a ‘luxury’ car, but it was very well made.

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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/packards-innovations/187000/6 "2022-10-20T22:25:53Z")

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There might not have been a Ferrari either. Enzo loved the sound of those Packard V-12’s that all the high ranking US Army officers drove around after WWII.