Packard sold the tooling for an older model to Russia as part of Lend-Lease during the war. That car was called the ZIS. After Stalin died and it became a bad idea to mention him the facility was renamed for Lenin instead and the car became the ZIL. By the ZIL era, it had been pretty severely altered from its Packard origins.
--scott
snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:
I don't recall much about the car or the name other than it being big, black, having a top speed of 99Mph despite a *huge* engine. A lot of the cars they had on that episode had names seemingly without vowels - in the Roman alphabet anyways.
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