Re: my friend Bob Duerr--rest in peace.

Posted by BH On 2011/2/7 10:27:06

John -

Sorry to hear of your friend's passing, but I'm sure you'll appreciate the time that you spent with him all the more.

Those happenstance encounters with people from the industry's rich history are priceless.

I can't fully agree with Bob's dislike for Nance, though. Without Nance, the Packard V8 might never have come to be, and your friend would not have had such a memorable experience of tooling up for it at Utica.

Decades later, I'm glad to hear that Bob got to put his recollections to use for the benefit of others - even if only that they they might remember the past correctly. Ah, if only we could have sat him down behind a map of the plants and plot all those memories.

Thanks for relating your tale here at PackardInfo; I'm sure many will share in your loss, but enjoy the story behind it.