Re: I wonder if I might be one of the youngest current Packard owners,
Posted by Orange-Lark On 2024/7/4 15:49:32
Thank you! (I have joined the club too but I have to retrieve the membership number somewhere)
Indeed, the reactions tend to be a bit surprising from others.
Yet, the perception of luxury cars seems to be a bit different among younger people (especially those born after 1995, those who are too young to remember the 20th century), the luxury car market is too dominated by the German OEMs and the traditional, flamboyant, or serious type of luxury cars gets a bit difficult to resonate among the generation in a different society. (they tend to be the same unable to understand why ZIL limousine was an upscale class of cars) Also, I have a few Dinky replicas, it doesn't resonate very well neither.
It must have been quite a feeling to own a Packard at 13yo! That was quite young to own a car at all, more so for a Packard. (and Packard 180 was still used in formal occasions outside of the US at the time, especially in Eastern Bloc and China, where they had to hang on to their old vehicles. Also, a senior military general was using a ZIS-110 into the '90s somewhere in China too, it might be the longest serving official car of such model, especially as everyone switched to "Western" automobiles after the fall of the USSR except very very few hardliner members. I learned from a young age to be cautious coming to situations like this)
Some friends in China thought my Packard was a movie prop. They didn't realize I own the car, drive it occasionally when more photos come up a year later!
Of course, just for fun, I don't believe there is any running Packard in China anymore (nor Delahaye, even though 7 were registered in the French Concession) but at least a Nash is running somewhere in Shanghai for movies (among few other American cars, and a lot more Soviet cars)
And Shanghai World War I Memorial replica is in the same place too
I wondered about it for more than a decade and eventually I knew where it is. Unfortunately, most people who have seen it may not know what it is, and most people who know what it is may not easily find where it is! Strange world
Indeed, the reactions tend to be a bit surprising from others.
Yet, the perception of luxury cars seems to be a bit different among younger people (especially those born after 1995, those who are too young to remember the 20th century), the luxury car market is too dominated by the German OEMs and the traditional, flamboyant, or serious type of luxury cars gets a bit difficult to resonate among the generation in a different society. (they tend to be the same unable to understand why ZIL limousine was an upscale class of cars) Also, I have a few Dinky replicas, it doesn't resonate very well neither.
It must have been quite a feeling to own a Packard at 13yo! That was quite young to own a car at all, more so for a Packard. (and Packard 180 was still used in formal occasions outside of the US at the time, especially in Eastern Bloc and China, where they had to hang on to their old vehicles. Also, a senior military general was using a ZIS-110 into the '90s somewhere in China too, it might be the longest serving official car of such model, especially as everyone switched to "Western" automobiles after the fall of the USSR except very very few hardliner members. I learned from a young age to be cautious coming to situations like this)
Some friends in China thought my Packard was a movie prop. They didn't realize I own the car, drive it occasionally when more photos come up a year later!
Of course, just for fun, I don't believe there is any running Packard in China anymore (nor Delahaye, even though 7 were registered in the French Concession) but at least a Nash is running somewhere in Shanghai for movies (among few other American cars, and a lot more Soviet cars)
And Shanghai World War I Memorial replica is in the same place too
I wondered about it for more than a decade and eventually I knew where it is. Unfortunately, most people who have seen it may not know what it is, and most people who know what it is may not easily find where it is! Strange world
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