Wanna See A '56 Packard?

Here's a TV commercial for the 1956 Packard Executive, which was a very nice looking car. It probably had that electronic push-button drive, too.





This was the last model year for the Detroit-built (or real) Packards. Just months later, the Studebaker-Packard Corporation closed down Packard's Detroit plant and moved manufacturing of the Packard cars to the Studebaker plant in South Bend, Indiana, in which the cars that were made in 1957 and 1958 before the marque was retired for good, were actually altered, badge-engineered Studebakers sold as Packards. Yes, those were the Packardbakers.