Correction. My brother informed me that the Packard never went to Florida. It was our 1947 Chrysler New Yorker sedan. One big barge. First car I ever drove by myself - illegally of course. Had Chrysler Fluid drive. Gear shift and slush pump. Didn't need to use the clutch after you got rolling. Replaced by 1949 Chrysler New Yorker, then a 1951 Imperial. Those were the days you got a new car every couple of years. Oh yes. Dad represented the local Chrysler dealer in those years. In 1956, we bought our first second car - a Plymouth station wagon for my mother. In 1961, a Valiant for her, held together with dumdum. Then the partners split up, the agency was sold and my old man bought a Fiat 1100 TV sedan - "No more big cars". Followed by a Lancia Appia, Volvo Amazon, Mercedes 230S and then...ab Olds 98 as big as a house, followed by his last car - a Ford LTD or Galaxie? which my brother inherited, drove it back to Virginia and blew the transmission in North Carolina.