Re: Packard Bikes
Posted by Leeedy On 2020/1/16 11:11:01
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Well. All I can say is that I have almost all CCM catalogues, dealerbooks and price lists from the early 1900s through the 1960s. $24.99 for top-of-the-line in the late 1960s is wow if you could get it.
As for the Colson-built Packard bicycle in the newspaper ad, it is cheap-even for the depression era. As a comparison, my own 1936 CCM Flyte (which was THE top of the line with the exception of the special CCM Racer that year) was $47.50. Remember this was 1936. The 1937 model was slightly more.
The Colson-built Packard bicycle in the ad was very cheap at $25.97... and the model in the ad was not even the top of the line that year! By the way, the price of the top-of-line Racer version CCM for 1936 was a whopping $80.00! Presuming you got your bicycle in 1967, $24.99 was still very, very cheap compared to the factory price lists. I only have the CCM dealer's accessories books for 1967 and 1968 but they do have much higher prices indicated for the bicycles. So you got a fantastic deal!
Here is a page from the original CCM dealerbook for 1936 showing my streamlined Flyte model. Yes, I still have it-still rideable, but the special Troxel "Toolbox" saddle needs a re-do (the seat had a built-in streamlined tool compartment).
For those who don't know, CCM stood for "Canada Cycle & Motor Company. In more recent years they also made sports equipment. Oh... and yes, CCM did indeed make SOME Packard-branded bicycles! Yes, I have one of these too. Who else tells you this stuff and can actually back it up?
Oh.. and yes have my original camera somewhere along with a Kodak box camera (round circles were either wind knobs or little red plastic windows where you could see which film frame number you were on).
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Packard newbie wrote:
Hi Leeedy,
That's an expensive bike for the time!! I remember buying my first bike some 30 years after that, a top-of-the-line CCM single speed and it was $24.99.
I'd take one of those AGFA Box Cameras down in the corner for a buck/nineteen though. Remember those? They took 120 film that came on a wooden spool, with a great big negative that you could just contact-print... the good old days! Chris.
Well. All I can say is that I have almost all CCM catalogues, dealerbooks and price lists from the early 1900s through the 1960s. $24.99 for top-of-the-line in the late 1960s is wow if you could get it.
As for the Colson-built Packard bicycle in the newspaper ad, it is cheap-even for the depression era. As a comparison, my own 1936 CCM Flyte (which was THE top of the line with the exception of the special CCM Racer that year) was $47.50. Remember this was 1936. The 1937 model was slightly more.
The Colson-built Packard bicycle in the ad was very cheap at $25.97... and the model in the ad was not even the top of the line that year! By the way, the price of the top-of-line Racer version CCM for 1936 was a whopping $80.00! Presuming you got your bicycle in 1967, $24.99 was still very, very cheap compared to the factory price lists. I only have the CCM dealer's accessories books for 1967 and 1968 but they do have much higher prices indicated for the bicycles. So you got a fantastic deal!
Here is a page from the original CCM dealerbook for 1936 showing my streamlined Flyte model. Yes, I still have it-still rideable, but the special Troxel "Toolbox" saddle needs a re-do (the seat had a built-in streamlined tool compartment).
For those who don't know, CCM stood for "Canada Cycle & Motor Company. In more recent years they also made sports equipment. Oh... and yes, CCM did indeed make SOME Packard-branded bicycles! Yes, I have one of these too. Who else tells you this stuff and can actually back it up?
Oh.. and yes have my original camera somewhere along with a Kodak box camera (round circles were either wind knobs or little red plastic windows where you could see which film frame number you were on).
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