Re: Special Thanks

Posted by BH On 2012/11/15 1:31:52

Kev -

Though I've been around since day one at PackardInfo, I must advise that I was initially skeptical of the whole idea - having seen plenty of other online attempts that never amounted to much. Though I had hundreds of pieces of literature on file, as they pertain to my own, limited interests in postwar Packards (mainly the V8s), I decided to stand back and let others pitch in with material.

Yet, by the time the forum was launched here, late in 2006, I was so fed up with "business as usual" in other Packard-related clubs/sites, that I was more than happy to work on the Model Info section, jump-start a few other early features, help fill in some gaps in the Literature and Manuals archive, and compose a few other original pieces.

For me, the real heavy-lifting came on the heels of reformatting my original "Index to Service Bulletins for 55th-56th Series Packards" for this site - when I took on the work for composing similar installments for previous years. It was a lotta work, but a labour of love. While new construction came to a halt on that work last year, when we effectively ran out of material, I continue to edit the existing content for better sorting, searching and clarity - until additional documents come to the surface.

More than once and in more than one area, your kung-fu programming has expedited the process of data entry, so that I could work more quickly offline, within a prescribed template, to provide files that you could import at the touch of few keystrokes/clicks to compile databases that can be read to dynamically generate web content. (More simply, that means whenever we add to or edit the behind-the-scenes database, the page that the viewer sees is updated automatically.)

Meanwhile, back in the brick-n-mortar world, what you have learned, practiced, and shared over the course of your 54 Clipper project should be an inspiration to all.

So, thanks to YOU, as well as all those who have selflessly stepped up to the plate with contributions of their time, talent, material, and dollars. Otherwise, we would not have been able to build so much, so fast.