Now let's go even further back. This time to December of 1926. The location was St. Louis, Missouri. The retailer was Stix, Baer & Fuller.

Neither the advertisement text, nor the image make it clear which manufacturing company made this Packard bicycle.

However we can tell you one thing. This single upper bar frame design (known as a "camelback") was typical of at least one model manufactured by Arnold, Schwinn & Company (ASC) around this time. If you would like to see other examples, scroll back through this thread. An ASC camelback bicycle is shown in red (as indicated in the ad) in the original ASC dealer literature. And again in the PMCC color advertisement that talked about "Red Letter Days."

You will note reference to "nickled rims" in this B&W ad. Chrome didn't start entering the bicycle realm until around 1928, two years after this ad appeared.

Reference to "New Departure" coaster brake shows that by the 1920s coaster brakes were common on American bicycles... and expected equipment (see earlier discussion in this thread about the emergence of bicycle brakes). As for New Departure, it eventually became a division of none other than General Motors.

Also, for those loyal followers of this thread, you will notice that Packard bicycles were indeed sold from one end of the USA to the other. And in both large and small communities. So for those bicycle "experts" today who crow about other brands and can't recall the facts on Packard bicycles... they just can't recall what they just don't know.

Oh. And dare I say it once again for the upteenth time? No mention of giving these bicycles away to "sweeten deals" on Packard automobiles.

Original literature image courtesy of National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).

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And... here is a MoPar batwing air cleaner... on an old Hemi.

Note the deep pressed-in ribs.

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Now... lets roll back to 1935 and over to Akron, Ohio. Look what they were selling at the Dollar Stores! And they don't even mention giving you one of these with a Packard automobile. Hmmmmmm...

By the way, this is a coincidence to the present ongoing (and mostly naive) endless debates about Arnold, Schwinn & Company inventing the balloon tire for bicycles.

The ad describes "Goodyear balloon tires" but the image (a rather generic one used in other ads) is a contradiction. It appears to show a boy on a bicycle equipped with 28-inch singletube high-pressure tires.

But hey... where else would you find so much Packard bicycle history? Right here.

Original 1935 ad courtesy of Leon Dixon and National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).

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Interested in buying an un-modified, unmolested, running, driving 1956 Four Hundred or Patrician. Preferably with factory air conditioning. Looking for a presentable car that has not been modified or hot-rodded or customized.

Of course, need to see photos. Feel free to PM me. Thanks!

Is your vehicle still for sale?

What is your best price (without any kits for modifying brakes or transmission)? Also do you have the factory original rear antennas?

Thanks.

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Yes, much earlier I had already offered a PayPal payment for this book with the slipcase via PM... but so far, no response.

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Okay. Let's see those...

Beautiful book. Is there an original dust jacket included?

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Ohhhhh! Scanning... would be a big, big project in itself. Photos are a bit deceiving and make it look smaller (I've got very large hands). This is a big album... long, heavy pages and lots and lots of kinetic (moving) displays with lots of possible visible positions. Lots. That's a ginormous amount of time and labor to do scans of such stuff. Big job!

But in the meantime, you are most welcome to use the photos I have provided here as long as I am credited as source of the photos.

Thanks.