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Hell yeah

Are you still around I loved walking around inside the packard plant

Yes they are worthless. They cover for GM.

Comments are also blocked on your page so only the bad comments show up. NHTSA is total garbage, but the government is blocking your page I only found it because I googled " the NHTSA is worthless". They hire companies like CRA who lie and Cover for the manufactures especially GM.

The NHTSA does not do its job. They lie and cover for the auto manufactures. I made a video about the CRA report on a UA case. The fact is your video should have 1,000,000 views but the truth is always blocked.

The problem these guys are having talking about the Ford Edsel is the reason why Henry Ford come out with yet so it wasn't to compete with any money the Ford Edsel was designed in memory of his son that died who had the name of Edsel which is what Henry Ford stated back in the '60s when I own my 58 Edsel

The main reason Ford developed the Edsel was because when an existing Ford customer wanted to move up to a medium price car, 75% of the time they bought a GM B-O-P instead of a Mercury. GM had 5 divisions, Chrysler had 5 divisions, Ford thought they needed at least 4 to compete.

Worthless ...that was not obvious?

Eye openers.. and you know what they say, if it doesn't work out then it wasn't meant to be.. but then what the hell is meant to be?

There's a UA-cam video that extols American Airlines DC-3 cross-country service showing a great arial view of the Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard.

John Clor is not a household name for a reason- he was not good at this.

SO SAD THAT THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED BACK IN 2019

Let Jerry talk, quit being a know it all and overbearing asshole

It would be interesting to update the building to be rehabbed and a pull-a-part bone yard like Parts Galore to set up inside.

Great history, yet sad indeed. I own a ‘56 Packard “The Four Hundred” 2-door Hardtop. Beautifully styled car, and very innovative. Thanks for sharing!

"An Oldsmobile sucking on a lemon," is how one wag described the Ed. Whenever a car lover who's nuts about some extinct line of clunkers wonders why nobody liked it, he drags out the ultimate cliche - "It was ahead of its time."

Henry Ford was quite the visionary! Amazing! I just wish that the George Pullman train car factory was in shape like this. A fire destroyed most of the factory. They managed to restore a relatively small portion of the property and make it into a museum and historical landmark 🚂 There’s still a Ford manufacturing plant in Chicago. Providing jobs for Chicagoans and the surrounding communities.🚗🚘

Nice history, many thx.

Thanks interesting

все ничего..да вот только какой то дурак постоянно "вау" сует в запись...вероятно дурак какой то затесался..)

Anybody count the WOW's? Beer and cigarettes sell better than hot cakes!😂

Ahead of its time ? No, a corporate blunder of epic proportions.

Mother Jones was the entity that hyped the Pinto tank issue

Drinking game. Every time John says "wow", you take a shot. You'll be hammered in 5 minutes!

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That's like Allis Chalmers in Milwaukee. Very, very poor upper management decisions. No government bail out for them. I think the CEO wanted failure. I remember when they removed the machinery. I stood in awe and disgust

I would love to see Packard return and rebrand themselves as an EV company.

I agree with you. I'm from Detroit.

two crazy men, for what??

What a terrible, terrible shame! If only the company had survived. Imagine the engineering, and styling innovations there would be today. They would still be trend setters! RIP Packard.

When my grandfather was alive he could take an engine apart and put it together like nobody’s business, and back in the twenties he was approached by Packard to be a test driver, quite an opportunity back in the day but alas he declined the offer because how many times would you have an opportunity to work for a prestige car company back during the depression. I’d jump at the chance but that’s why I’m such a car enthusiast

I spent my working life as a body tech, beginning in the 60's, retiring in 2006. I never saw a Pinto burned up from a rear hit, even in a wrecking yard. The real Pinto fire problem was the press in carb fitting. I've seen lots of those. My solution was to tap the carb body to 1/8" pipe an use a screw in fitting.

This presentation offers a historical description and has great Value for this purpose, for future minds. Well done!

My father worked at the Packard plant on Grand blvd and latter in the final coupla years on Connor from 1939 til it closed in 1956. He went to the Ford Sterling Axle Plant in 1956 til 1986. He told me that Packard was a great place to work and was very disappointed when Packard closed and went out of business.

Despite their reputation as a laughable flop, 1958 Edsels weren’t *much* worse than their competitors. Several factors doomed Ford’s new product from the start: A surprise economic recession began in late Summer 1957 that sharply reduced demand for new cars - especially gas-guzzlers like the Edsel big series.Edsel prices were considered high. A typical fully-loaded Citation, for example, cost 99% of the average American household’s yearly income! Also, Edsel debuted in the same week most car dealers began discounting their leftover 1957 inventory. Edsel’s ambitious product mix -- 18 models in four series -- confused the public as to how Edsel compared with other brands. Many were unsure whether the Edsel really represented a “step up” from their current ride. There were notorious quality issues early on: Workers’ hourly quotas for assembling other cars were not reduced once responsibility for the Edsel was added. Men naturally resented having to build Edsels “for free” -- thus some assembly was, um, casual. Edsel assembly required different tools and access to different parts bins than did Ford/Mercury production; mistakes were made. It was rumored that if Edsel succeeded, it would put the squeeze on Ford/Mercury sales and cost some assemblers their jobs! Edsel’s quality inspectors could not watch cars being built - only check them afterward. Also, a whole day’s production was approved for shipment if the *average* quality of all the Edsels a plant made that day fell within range. This meant that some seriously deficient cars got sent to dealers along with the good ones! No car could live up to the relentless drumbeat of hype to which Edsel’s ad agency had subjected the public for a full year prior to roll-out. Finally, Ford executive Robert McNamara - later “kicked upstairs” to Secretary of Defense - thought small cars were the wave of Ford's future and he schemed to eliminate the Edsel Division even before it had made its first sale!

Don Draper

Who says America was never great...

waste of time. demolish the ruins

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There is something that I haven't quite got straight in my mind has Anyone backed up one year and Taken good look at the mercury's that were built between 1957 and1960. Where did the vessel Fit into the Ford line up. All the Edsel was was that the jr series ranger a and pacer were built off aford chassis and body the senior Cars the corsair and the citation were built off the mercury's body A nd chassis it's interesting to note That even mercury's weren't selling in this down economy. But the edsel was dropped. Ford came along with the falcon which was very successful and a short time later Lincoln mercury dealers got a slightly larger comet and the standard mercury for 1961 went back to being aloft more Ford based!

The original Packard Electric was founded in 1890 in Warren Ohio and later became a part of GM, then Delphi. Packard Electric founded Packard Motor Car in 1899.

You guys suck. The other guy needs to shut up.

The Edsel's most important reason for failure: over-promotion. Ford promised for years that it would be the most amazing car anyone had ever seen, with all-new features never before offered in an automobile. But once people got a look at it, they realized it was just another big car, and the features were merely gimmicks. One former Edsel dealer said it best: "we had customers coming into the showroom that were expecting to see a nuclear-powered car that could fly. Obviously, it failed to meet their high expectations."

The top ten cars are in the hunt every Sunday. This has to change .Great drivers can't overcome a poor car.

17:45 that beautiful bridge looks a lot different today. It collapsed onto Grand River last week.

NASCAR is DEAD!

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After all these years the progressives sure have destroyed this city

I'll believe it when it's done. I've heard inside source say there is gold in the ground there.