Before this derelict 40-acre site is cleared of rubble and rebar, let’s relive the glory years of one of America’s most important automotive assembly plants.
Detroit’s rich automotive history has been well documented but not very well preserved. Ford’s historic Piquette plant has been meticulously restored because it gave birth to the Model T, which forever changed the industry. But much of the blight that has plagued Detroit for decades stems from dozens of plants that were quickly built in the early 1900s, then eventually went dormant, inevitably falling into disrepair on the long, lonely path to utter abandonment.
The popularity of Packard’s V12 kept the Twin Six on the assembly line in Detroit until 1924. The high water mark for production was 1916, with nearly 11,000 Twin Sixes produced. 1923 Single Eight This was the first iteration of the inline-eight-cylinder engine that would be synonymous with Packard motorcars until 1954. It was simpler to manufacture than the Twin-Six, yet superior and far more profitable.
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