Re: Work on the 1953 Derham Formal

Posted by Stephen Houseknecht On 2017/6/14 21:06:55

Thanks for all the kind words and I would like to thank everyone who has been posting about their projects and cars over the last five years I have been looking at this great resource/site. It has given me a great deal of insight to Packard engineering design that will help me make intelligent (I hope) decisions and choices as I work on the car. My plan is to keep it completely original.

Unfortunately the woman I bought the car from has gone into assisted living. She is the wife of the second owner and had told me his mother was a sister to the Packard brothers. Her daughter had put a number of cartons of family documents to the curb after an estate sale so my GF called her to see if that was what she wanted done with them. Short story is there is a lot of Packard family correspondence here. I haven't had a chance to go through it yet but it looks like I will be taking a drive to Warren O to give to the Packard Museum. Found the obit from late owner's mother and I quote "James W. Packard, the inventor of the Packard automobile, was her cousin". Goes on to say that her family had a summer home on Chautauqua Lake NY where the inventor also lived. So that is finally straightened out and corrected.