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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
No surprise about the errors, unfortunately that publication suffers from very poor (or perhaps no) proofreading for accuracy and has for a long time - blatant errors and certainly not a magazine to rely on for facts though I enjoy some of the writers and the photography. The publication is a far cry from the excellent "Special Interest Autos" that it replaced.
Yesss, agreed, Owen. But the errors (even the critiques) when involving Packard somehow tend to be so severe. Mystery.
My favorite was the pictorial write-up on a Packard that was supposedly specially prepared and sold to a celebrity owner via Earle C. Anthony dealership in California. So... they show this nice, shiny data plate for the car. And there... very proudly stamped into the metal plate of this special car, sold by a special dealer, to a special customer are the words: "Earl C. Anthony"... wow.
I can assure you that Mr. Anthony spelled his name "Earle" (with an "E" on the end) not "Earl" and no Packard for a special customer would have EVER been allowed to leave ECA, Inc. with the boss's name misspelled for all to see on the data plate. That one is hard to swallow. Even harder to understand is why the magazine bought into it. Harder still is the amazing thing that they didn't seem to like the correction. If it was a simple mistake made when repopping the data plate (and this is certainly possible-even if weird), then why proudly display a photo without even noticing the glaring error?
The car magazine biz today is an odd one... still a great one, but odd now. The magazines have one foot into the internet (which is a good thing in many ways) and the other into the auction world. And everybody running things is infallible. Unlike in years of old, they now proudly acknowledge info supplied by auction companies as if it is the pinnacle of accuracy.
This is what happened with the car hobby handed over the reins of being "historians" to auction companies... who continue to give us gems like the gray Packard Panther with the outrageously convoluted "history"...STILL amazed over that one and the magazines and internet "sources" that were only too eager to repeat the "history" of this car. Wow.
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