Classic car enthusiasts know there was some sort of link between Packard and ZIS/ZIL – postwar ZIS-110s looked like near-perfect copies of pre-war Packards, as did later ZIL/Chaikas resemble later Packard Clippers. Or was there some sort of link? Griff Borgeson wrote on the topic in the pre-glasnost SIA #55, February 1980, and comes away with evidence, but no solid conclusions.