How America's FINEST Car Company DISAPPEARED

SUBSCRIBE! 🔧 (It's free)    / @whensteelspoketv   WATCH MORE: 🚗🏁    • American Power Stories   They beat Cadillac for thirty years. Royalty bought them by the fleet. The same engine they perfected won the war over Berlin. So you would think the Great Depression was the thing that should have ended them, and it nearly ended everyone else. It did not. What finally took down the finest car company America ever built was a single deal, signed before anyone checked the numbers, in the middle of the biggest car boom the country had ever seen. The cars were that good. The decisions were not. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The American Car That Beat Cadillac 0:34 - Two Brothers and a Better Winton 1:23 - Ask the Man Who Owns One 1:48 - The Twelve and the Engine That Won the War 3:24 - The Depression Kills Every Rival but Packard 3:50 - The One Twenty Saves the Company 4:48 - The Mistake That Drained the Brand 5:57 - The Bathtub and the Lost Crown 7:45 - Nance and the 1955 Comeback 9:06 - The Studebaker Deal That Ended Packard #classiccars #packard #carhistory #vintagecars #americancars #automotivehistory #cardocumentary #luxurycars #studebaker #cadillac #detroithistory #forgottencars #prewarcars #carstories