Re: 1st Irish Packard Weekend!

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2009/1/17 10:01:44

Pat, I hope your Irish Packard Weekend is more of a success than my Boreal Packard Winter Meet held on February 15 in 2005. Besides offering a goody bag consisting of an ice scraper, a bottle of windshield anti freeze and a can of lock deicer I had also included, as an incentive for participants, a door prize of a set of used tire chains. Only one other participant came to my show site on a clear patch of ice I snow shovelled on Lake Superior and it was a Lapplander from nearby Kivikoski who as it turned out was simply lost in the -40 white out blizzard while attempting to get to his ice fishing hole in his 1963 Saab 96 Saab "2-takt" . I gave him the tire chains as a consolation prize despite not bringing a Packard to the meet in return for half of his quart of homemade Vodka. Unfortunately due to the cold I was unable to start my Super Clipper and had to leave it in the garage at home and make my way to the site in a pair of snowshoes just in case someone showed up.