Re: 1956 Caribbean Production
Posted by Leeedy On 2024/4/4 15:37:13
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BigKev wrote:
I'm not sure where the disconnect is here. I never said you and Roscoe didn't do any work, and nowhere did I even elude to that.
My point is, what happens when you and Roscoe have gone to the Great Car Show in the Sky? What happens if your house burns down tomorrow?
What are the plans to preserve those records for future reference? If there are plans in place, that's great, enough said.
I'm all about making as much Packard information freely available for folks to access, with no agenda attached. This was one of the reasons why folks like Carol Mauck asked me many years ago to take Fred's extensive Packard literature collection and make it available for folks to access. He didn't want it to end up in the landfill or at a museum where either no one knew it was there or they were charged to access it.
Too many rare pieces (aka Dad's old dusty Packard stuff) have been tossed out by family members who don't understand their informational value.
Hopefully, everyone puts in some type of effort, in their own way, for the betterment of the hobby. Some people will appreciate it; some people won't.
Only said that this stuff has indeed been preserved and individuals have indeed had the forethought to save it in the first place for people to argue about today. Before the internet. All of which is precisely why I started collecting and preserving the Packard stuff... and notes and memories decades ago. What I saved was not communal nor a group effort. It was my personal effort. Even if it is a bad thing today to get credit for what one has actually done on their own. Or that such individual efforts do not matter in the communal world of today– unless one is giving it all away to this or that, etc..etc.
I'm not "dad"... and watching stuff get tossed is certainly not a new phenomenon to me. Please. I was there when they were tossing out Packard stuff in Detroit. I had relatives who worked for Packard. I owned commercial property near the Grand Blvd. plant. My family had a store near the ConnerAvenue plant– which I watched both open and close. I had friends who actually worked on real Packards, including special ones... like the Balboa, the Request, the Panthers, and the Predictor. I actually knew this stuff.
Sharing the info? Over the years I have included inside stories, histories, photos and memories in The Packard Cormorant magazine, Hemmings Motor News, Special-Interest Autos magazine, Car Classics magazine, Popular Mechanics and more. Including a book I wrote. For the first time in history, I listed the actual Packard Pan Americans, their full history, how they got made, etc. etc. Showed photos no one had ever seen before. Facts no one ever wrote about before. Minimizing all this is fine, I guess. But my efforts and collections are not communal. And I should not be browbeat over what I decide or don't decide to do with my stuff.
No matter what anyone may imagine in my ability to envision, certainly there has been prior thought to preserving the history of this stuff. Including ... when I go to the great Packard graveyard in the sky. So. And again with all due respect, I have just a little clue here about saving the history and sharing it. I detest arguments– especially online. Thanks for the concern and passion. This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=269747