Re: Packard employees question

Posted by BH On 2007/4/10 23:18:32

Owen_Dyneto -

With all due respect (and nothing personal at all), the reprints you've cited were accomplished decades ago. However, what did the clubs do with the proceeds from such projects?

Except for a few additional volumes of the Service Counselor and reprints of some minor marketing brochures, I've seen nothing new in terms of printed matter from PAC. The only Service Letters I saw available from PAC were for prewar models - when a gaping hole has existed, for decades, in terms of Service Technical Bulletins for postwar cars. I don't believe for a NY minute that the club could not have pulled that material together and had it reprinted.

Through my own private efforts, over the years, I assembled a complete set of photocopies of STBs AND Studebaker Service Bulletins on the V8 cars, but was lucky enough to also acquire a nearly complete set of original STBs and General Service Bulletins dating back to 1952, plus assorted parts bulletins - all from a single estate. Yet, I will probably put everything except the V8 stuff on eBay, next winter, to people who are still looking for original material.

Meanwhile, how much inventory of Centennial souvenirs is PAC still sitting on?

For a variety of reasons, I couldn't see supporting PAC with my dues any longer and let my membership lapse last year. IMHO, that club has fallen out of touch of what Packard owners need from a club. Never mind getting the scoop on a top-secret project to produce V12 Packards for 1965 (that never happened), "tea and scones" just don't cut it.

Yet, in spite of all that has transpired, know that, over the years, I had purchased not only the '55-'56 material that PAC had reprinted, but manuals for earlier series, from which the V8 cars were derived. However, I'd never copy a reprint and upload it here. As best as I can tell, only original material has been scanned and donated here.