The first cars with the Briggs body plate would be the 1941 Clippers. As Packard built the bodies for the 1941 110s, 120s, 160s, and 180s, they would not have a Briggs plate.

The Pebble Beach Concours on August 18th will celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the first Packard, with a focus on the early cars and the 1930 Speedsters.

Yes - Packard DID produce an entire airplane in late-1918, the LUSAC 11, powered by Packard's Liberty V-12. There's a photo of the production line at East Grand Blvd. on page 187 of the Automobile Quarterly "Packard, A History..." book. Only two completed planes were finished, with another 27 being built, when the war ended on November 11, 1918.

Susan Johnson passed away on Tuesday, January 2, at the age of 79. She contracted Covid a few weeks ago. I spoke to her on Sunday, and she seemed to be getting better, but then she took a turn for the worse the next day.

Susan was the Packard Club's Vice President of Hospitality, and arranged the dinner during the Hershey swap meet each October for the PAC Board of Directors for many years. She was the recipient of PAC's George Weiss Award for Meritorious Service to the Packard hobby in 2023.

No other details are known at this time. She is survived by her husband, Bill, and two of her beloved dogs.

Here are three photos of the Patrician, one at Packard in 1952, one at the 1952 Chicago show, and one that I took in 1998.

The article about this car was in The Packard Cormorant #6, Spring 1977.

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The source of the bodies used by Mr. Andrews in his so-called new Packard is posted below.

http://www.gibbonfiberglass.org/Packard-Bodies---parts.html

Below is an article I wrote, published in 2008, on these bodies, which was featured in The Packard Cormorant #131.

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2nd Chance Classics — In 1971, Dwight Bond opened a small restoration shop in Gibbon, Nebraska where he restored Ford Model As and Ts. After branching off into reproduction Model A fenders, he was so overwhelmed by the demand that he closed the restoration shop and started Gibbon Fiberglass Reproductions. GFR became the first company to nationally advertise a complete fiberglass Ford body; by the 1980s, GFR was reproducing components and complete Ford bodies from the Model T to the late-1930s.

In 1985, Bond started 2nd Chance Classics, which began building components and turnkey versions of the 1933 Packard in three body styles, Coupe Roadster (46 produced), Victoria Convertible (three) and Limousine Towncar (five). The Bond Packards duplicated the original 1933’s dimensions so accurately that they could be mounted on an original chassis and could use the original’s hood and fenders. The bodies were hand-built from separate pieces and reinforced with steel and hardwoods. The turnkey vehicles featured modern V-8 engines, automatic transmission, power steering and brake as well as air conditioning.

Dwight Bond retired from the body building business in 1996 and sold the entire product line to his son Kyle. The Packard line was discontinued in 2000. As of this date, the Packard molds are for sale.

Alvan Macauley lived at 1801 Irquois Avenue in Indian Village, from 1914 to 1929, when his mansion on Lake Shore Road was built. One of his neighbors was Edsel Ford, whose mansion on Lake Shore Road was built around 1928.

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That car belonged to the late Craig Hendrickson in Nevada. Don't know what happened to it after he passed on.

Bob Zimmerman passed away on November 25th at the age of 87. He was a long-time member of both The Packard Club and Packards International. For many years he was the director and the editor of the Mid-West Region of PI in Akron, Ohio. Bob had one of the largest Packard postcard collections around, and was a frequent presence at various swap meets.

I have copied the obituary, below, and have attached a photo I took of Bob in 2000 with his 1954 Patrician in Warren, Ohio, as the photo that goes with the obituary is rather bad. He will be greatly missed.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/obituaries/pwoo0641036

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The Packard Point lasted in the 1990s, at least, maybe into the 2000s. I don't know who the first editor was, but Mike Barbush edited it for many, many years.