Re: English Spelling and Usage

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2014/2/8 0:03:12

No offense taken. My father's side of the family bought and used Packards from the 1920s to after WWII. Then it became Buicks for the rest of the family, and Pop began buying new Chevies every two years. Packard lore was still rampant when the uncles got together, so my respect goes way back.

Packard remains special to me because I was taught from an early age by my father that nothing sounded or felt like the purr of a Packard straight eight. My 27 year old BMW 635 CSi tries real hard, but Detroit still out smoothes Munich. And nothing rides quite like Torsion Level when it's behaving. Given a bit more time, I might learn to think Packard rather than Chevrolet when someone says "327." And in our BMW club, the guys still laugh when someone says they're sure that those letters stand for Big Money Wasted.