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Originally Posted by Jim B.
I believe President Franklin Roosevelt gifted the prewar Packard body dies to the communist dictator, Joseph Stalin, his wartime ally.
The pictures of the black Russian ZIL or ZIS limousines from the late 1940s and early 1950s I have seen, seem to back that idea up. I am pretty sure it is true.
http://www.svvs.org/1950_ZIS_110_Saloon.shtml |
The Russian car looks very much like the Packard. In the pictures that I have seen that hood lines of the Russian cars do not look to have as sharp of a bend as the Packards. If this is so was it a requirement so that it 'did not look like a Packard' or did the Russians have steel and /or stamping problems that required and alteration to the tooling. I used to work in metal stamping and if you are going to make a sharp bend of that length you better have very good steel, good tooling, and a precision press.
My Packard 'itch' is getting really bad.
