Re: 1934 Pittsburgh Auto Show?

Posted by Tim Cole On 2009/4/15 20:20:19

Well I'm glad for you that you straightened out the provenance for your car. Maybe you could sell it to the guy that has the late judge's 1940 Sport Sedan.

I am surprised how much vitriol my comparisons with the Lincoln Continental seem to bring on. Is this possibility any less remote than Bill Mitchell supposedly being inspired to do the 63 Riviera after a trip to Europe, or the new Sting Ray after a shark attack in the Bahamas? The Riviera looks a lot less like a Ferrari than the Continental looks like that Packard. And good designers don't go home for the day just because they don't happen to be full of original ideas.

Once when I was in the middle of nowhere Africa I stumbled upon a Custom Packard Town Car. "What the hell is this doing here?" El Baldrige was driving around rural France and spotted a Custom Packard under a tree next to a chicken shack. Once in Florida I found a Packard sitting unused outside a bar. It had six super rare wire wheels.

Sometimes strange things happen.