Re: Update on Atomic Museum car

Posted by Daniel Leininger On 2009/4/9 12:52:30

It is good to see this 'conversation' continue.

The Fitzjohn history and photos are very clear that about them stretching Chevys and Packards and other makes for the military in 1942. Guscha linked this discusson to some of the Fitzjohn sites in this thread and the previous one.
(As I write Guscha has already posted what I was also thinking.) Fitzjohn like a million other companies (including Packard) was part of an all out War effort. They made BUSSES out of trucks, cars, whatever, to support the defense effort. They were not a 'custom shop' or 'builder' making luxury Packards for well-heeled folks. They were more an 'industrial' jobber making whatever was needed by a customer

I suspect that the Trinity Project at Los Alamos had several (many) stretch taxis. This was the 'secret city' in the desert that produced the atomic bomb. [I am anxious to get the book that JW mentioned earlier in this thread. The stories of this location, era, are fascinating to me.]

Big Kev - I would also vote for combining these two 'Atomic Packard' threads. Since I started this first thread, we seem to be in 'Round 4' of a 4 month discussion of this era of Packard-&-automobile history.

DanL