My old man was "A Packard Man", would buy new one every two years, from '47 on.
Last one was '55 400 model........SUPER CAR!!
He quit Packard when they merged with Studebaker, (I think he suffered a stroke over THAT).
I believe he paid $5,500 for the 400, my mother was, to say the least, miffed about the price. We had just paid $5,000 for a 4 bedroom house on 10 acres.
The Packard of that era was a land Yacht. Thinking of it also reminded me of the Hudson Hornet, whose maker also went belly up.