Back then . . . MacArthur’s ’42 Packard

I tried getting better pictures but this car was already sold. Do you remember the car looking something like this?

LTC (Join to see) - I was only 7 then so the most I remember is playing on the floor. Also I could sleep there, with my head on the driveshaft hump.
Thanks for the pictures.

(I did not develop my love of the automobile until some years later)

MSG Stan Hutchison yes if you were only seven you wouldn't remember. Here is a bizarre Packard that I saw two weeks ago. It was an early inline eight Packard. Packard was already losing its business and near bankruptcy when this car came out yet by the late 1940s, most automakers had gone to a V8. Some of them were Flathead V8s but some of them were overhead valve. I was very disappointed with the Packard having an inline 8 engine with a very small carburetor because you cannot get any horsepower out of a car with that configuration.

My father took a picture of a Packard Clipper as part of his photography school assignment. I still have this picture mounted it's a 16x20 picture. Packard has gone out of business along with many other car companies.

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. LTC Trent Klug CSM Charles Hayden PV2 Scott Mollette

No different than today. I had a friend of mine who told me a few years back that if you saw a black Dodge Caravan come to the front gate, it was probably assigned to a general officer. This would be a fully loaded Dodge Caravan probably the Dodge Caravan GT with the 306 horsepower V6 instead of the 287 horsepower v6, fully loaded with leather seats, power sunroof, alloy wheels and it would seat six to seven passengers.

I bet you now those same general officers probably get a top-of-the-line Chrysler Pacifica Limited.

CSM Charles Hayden PV2 Scott Mollette