Re: 1975
Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2010/1/12 12:19:46
In 1975, I had been out of the USAF for a year having taken the plunge into entrepreneurship with my startup business H-O Racing Specialties. H-O was a company which both drag raced Pontiacs and provided high performance parts and info for same. H-O still exists today, albeit in a somewhat different business form, but I am no longer directly involved having sold it to its present owner in 1981.
I had been exposed to Packards before and during High School as my dad owned both a 1951 200 and a 1955 Clipper Super (w/T-L). I assisted him on the latter as a teenager, even helping R&R the T-U at one point.
But, in 1975 Packards were hardly being restored much less being modified.
Thankfully, enough Packards were "saved" or at least benignly ignored that there are enough around today to support what seems to be a growing niche of the collector car hobby.
BTW, Happy Birthday, Eric!
Craig
I had been exposed to Packards before and during High School as my dad owned both a 1951 200 and a 1955 Clipper Super (w/T-L). I assisted him on the latter as a teenager, even helping R&R the T-U at one point.
But, in 1975 Packards were hardly being restored much less being modified.
Thankfully, enough Packards were "saved" or at least benignly ignored that there are enough around today to support what seems to be a growing niche of the collector car hobby.BTW, Happy Birthday, Eric!
Craig
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