Hey Bleach, On the Russian Packards story, I'm age old also and I guess I have been debunked also! Seems to me I got the story from Nat Dawes himself in the late '70s. He had written a book on Packards, from '42-'58. The car and the book are long gone!
Tony, I might not be able to convince you that the ZIL is not built off defunct Packard dies. There are and were a lot of experts, including some Packard engineers that the ZIL is nothing more than a copy, a good one at that. Cheers.
This is not a photo of Andy Andrews car lot on Van Nuys Blvd. This is a car show held in front of the Sparks & Bonney race shop on Melrose Ave. in Hollywood.
Burt Reynolds, right, and his double, former Vanderbilt football player Steve Shaw, waits to begin another scene in the movie, "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings" filmed in Nashville March 25, 1974.
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