Re: Packard Bikes
Posted by Leeedy On 2020/4/24 10:10:31
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Okay... ask and ye shall receive.
-Only this photo is from 1978 and it's not a Packard bicycle, but rather, a rare Caribbean and aluminum Silver King "wingbar" (actually two of them) bicycles. Look behind us and you'll also notice one of my Caribbeans. This was a 1955 and yes, I drove it regularly. I lived at the beach and I often took it on drives along the coast. Often people would stop me and beg to buy it or wonder what the heck it was (who made Packard?).
One of my good friends (I'll let you figure out who he is) used to drive down from Beverly Hills and we would go bicycle riding-but always on my vintage pieces. Something I stopped doing long ago for a lot of reasons.
People on TV and on the internet would have you believe the hobby just dropped out of the sky in the late 1980s. But I was doing this stuff in the 1960s and 1970s-which is when I started it. I was collecting and restoring Packard bicycles and other American classic bicycles before anyone. This is a fact-whether anyone today wants to acknowledge it or not.
Some want you to think that "picker" guys on TV are the experts on American classic bicycles (how did this happen?). Others want you to think a pawn shop knows or has friends who really know. There are "experts" all over the internet. But where were they in the 1960s and 1970s? Still others want you to think this somehow started in Michigan. But yours truly wrote and published the first international news stand article on American classic vintage bicycles (you can look it up in the January, 1978 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine). And if you know anything about magazine schedules you'll realize that a January, 1978 cover date meant the magazine was in circulation in late 1977... and the article was obviously written at least by 1977. So how does this make people who just stumbled onto any of this stuff in the late 1980s or 1990s today's "experts"?
Today, it is Interesting to see a YouTube video recently posted of a famous car customizer showing off what he thinks is a "1936 Elgin Bluebird" (with a 1937 paint job). The customizer gives a number he thinks are the existing Bluebirds left... but yours truly has personally owned more than that number over the years. The two guys you see here also were collecting Elgin Bluebirds in the 1970s.
Next time, MORE Packard bicycles!
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Ozstatman wrote:
Leon,
How about a photo of you on one of your "Packard" bikes
Sorry,couldn't help it, "social distancing" does that!
Okay... ask and ye shall receive.
-Only this photo is from 1978 and it's not a Packard bicycle, but rather, a rare Caribbean and aluminum Silver King "wingbar" (actually two of them) bicycles. Look behind us and you'll also notice one of my Caribbeans. This was a 1955 and yes, I drove it regularly. I lived at the beach and I often took it on drives along the coast. Often people would stop me and beg to buy it or wonder what the heck it was (who made Packard?).
One of my good friends (I'll let you figure out who he is) used to drive down from Beverly Hills and we would go bicycle riding-but always on my vintage pieces. Something I stopped doing long ago for a lot of reasons.
People on TV and on the internet would have you believe the hobby just dropped out of the sky in the late 1980s. But I was doing this stuff in the 1960s and 1970s-which is when I started it. I was collecting and restoring Packard bicycles and other American classic bicycles before anyone. This is a fact-whether anyone today wants to acknowledge it or not.
Some want you to think that "picker" guys on TV are the experts on American classic bicycles (how did this happen?). Others want you to think a pawn shop knows or has friends who really know. There are "experts" all over the internet. But where were they in the 1960s and 1970s? Still others want you to think this somehow started in Michigan. But yours truly wrote and published the first international news stand article on American classic vintage bicycles (you can look it up in the January, 1978 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine). And if you know anything about magazine schedules you'll realize that a January, 1978 cover date meant the magazine was in circulation in late 1977... and the article was obviously written at least by 1977. So how does this make people who just stumbled onto any of this stuff in the late 1980s or 1990s today's "experts"?
Today, it is Interesting to see a YouTube video recently posted of a famous car customizer showing off what he thinks is a "1936 Elgin Bluebird" (with a 1937 paint job). The customizer gives a number he thinks are the existing Bluebirds left... but yours truly has personally owned more than that number over the years. The two guys you see here also were collecting Elgin Bluebirds in the 1970s.
Next time, MORE Packard bicycles!
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