A Packard Inheritance

Posted by Cli55er On 2015/6/19 23:09:41

Not much better way to spend Father's day weekend than going through old photo albums and learning about my family history from my Grandfather who pretty much kept everything.

I have a couple of full boxes of nothing but at least half a century worth of Packard collecting. I have old letter head from the PMMC to my Grandfather, with the original envelope and stamp. Apparently he submitted sketches of cars for possible production maybe. One of the letters written back was from the VP himself.

My Grandfather is the whole reason I'm the way I am with Packards....obsessed!

Here are some examples of what I have to share. Unless Kev disagrees, I plan to upload several pictures of what I find over time. Kind of a "project blog" but in the general Packard section.

I'm having to go through all this a little at a time, the shear size of it is overwhelming. Some of it is old family photos, which I wont post, so bear with me as I get to all of the Packard stuff I think you guys would find interesting.

In several of the photos I noticed my Grandfather was wearing a certain Packard hat that I happen to have still, so yup....I put it on and kept looking at Packard pics. can you tell I'm in hog heaven! just look at that crazy fool's mug!

I believe the photo of the 48 convertible to be a period correct photo, perfectly preserved. I'm also pretty sure that is the Fort Worth Packard dealer, the same one that I took my Packard chassis to and had photos of with my Father.

That's me at about 5 with the 47 Packard. I have a picture of my aunt at about the same age when my Grandfather picked that car up in 1966. talk about crazy!

the sketch looks like my Grandfather tried to marry the Predictor with the Panther. pretty cool.

Also...Happy Father's day. I know I'm in Packard and Father's day Heaven!

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