Re: End of Winter Hibernation

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2016/3/9 10:38:43

Excluding the mileage to and from, the typical Henry Joy Tour has 4 days of driving tours. Normally the first day will be quite short, maybe 15-40 miles. Of course it varies but subsequent days may be 60-100 miles each day so on a typical HJ Tour you may accumulate 350 miles of tour driving, again exclusive of the to-and-from the host hotel.

I've only used the '56 Carib on one HJ Tour, that one in the Canandaigua area of upstate NY and the added mileage to and from the event was close to another 350 miles. For all the other HJ Tours I've used the '34 and generally had it shipped to and from the host hotel. That wasn't so much because of the mileage involved as it was the absence of good direct routes that avoided Interstate highways.


As far as PAC National meets go, I don't go to all of them and don't always take a Packard when I do. I drove the '48 Custom 8 to Asheville NC in 1993, about 420 miles each way. I drove the '56 Carib to Reading PA last year, about 130 miles each way and to Gettysburg in 2010, about 240 miles each way. I had the '34 shipped to the Centennial Meet in Warren OH in 1997, to the Boston National in 2005. National meets always have some tour driving days which can vary quite a bit; last year at Reading the total of the tour drving was perhaps 200 miles. The Gettysburg National tour drving was more, perhaps 300 miles.