Documentary America's Packard Museum (Image Heavy)

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Dayton Ohio has an automobile museum - containing a large collection of Packard's as well as cars related to the company.

First, the outside of the museum - it once was a Packard dealership.

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The museum is structured in what they called a pre-war and post war sectioning (WWII).

This is in the pre-war wing cars:

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Post WW II wing cars
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13 - This Henny Landau hearse was used in the first Godfather movie (next 3 images)
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16 - the next 2 images are of a car that was owned by the notorious mob boss Alfonse Capone. He bought this 6 months prior to his death. When the car was reclaimed - spnt 9mm Luger shell casings were found through out the car.
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18 - finally - these last images are of the famous DeLorean. What is the link between Packard and DeLorean? The inventor of this iconic car useed to work as an engineer at Packard!
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