Time for me to break out the camera and take some pictures of the Pontiac dealership in my town. It's not as elegant as the Packard dealership depicted above, but the day is coming that "Pontiac" will sound as strange as "Packard" (at least to younger ears).

Has anyone ever toured the old Packard plant?

Cool place and a lot of history.. even if it's trashed out and full of bad things nowadays. I wanted to buy the plant for Mealer American Motors Corp., but it was in too bad of shape and the unions would not back down if a new Automaker moved into union territory.

Packard made the highest profits of any car company per centage wise with their cars just before they went out of business.

First car I drove was a 1938 Packard. Nobody seemed to have cared much what we did with it. May well have been 1965. I was 13 then.

After that I got to drive a Cutlass 440, and a Sunbeam Tiger.

Plymouth Belvedere with a 273 would do 110.

Well balanced.

Pontiac Star Chief would smooth do 90.

I got my Kia to 115.

Dream car is a Subaru.

My friend flipped one and I lived.

The Falcon was alright, but the hood came loose and smashed the windshield.

The Cadillac Brougham had bad bushings and was squirrelly.

Got all fixed but totaled it when I hit an Ommi that snuck through a line.

Monte Carlo after that. Ugly and heavy, and the doors sagged, but it would turn on a dime.

Got an Acura now.

Had an Opel, and a Sabb, along the way.

Want a VW bus now.