Re: One Story Assembly Plant What If?
Posted by Leeedy On 2014/5/20 9:44:06
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DaveB845 wrote:
And you don't look a day older than the earlier picture in the Hughes/Peters Caribbean in Beverly Hills!
Given the many other pictures of Packards on display at or about that spot in front of the EGB factory, it's a graphic contrast to things in the 1950s. Unlike Leeeedy, time has taken its toll.
Hahahahaha. Welll, those are more kind words. If only they were true. Sometimes I think back to the days when my father and I would drive past the Packard Plant and I would beg him to slow down at night so I could guess the shapes of the new bodies traveling across the bridge behind the frosted glass. Or the times when we would slow down and gaze at the rows of sparkling new Packards in the lot at EGB and Mt. Elliot. We really loved those cars and the company.
So to look at the plant (and Detroit) today is an emotional experience for me. Was it really that long ago? My mind often says no... but the face I see in the mirror when I shave unfortunately says... yes. It was a very, very long time ago.
Thanks again for the kind words and thoughts. It is an honor to share Packard memories and the love of a great company and automobile that unfortunately is no more... except with us...
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