Best Road Trips for Packards & More

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2009/2/2 2:28:31

To all long-distance Packard drivers and Road-Trippers in general:

This thread was inspired by Kev when we started to talk about past and future ideas for Road Trips, especially those dealing with Route 66 or other famous routes. I'd especially like to hear about Lincoln Highway and Highwy 61 trips, which I would like to do someday.

I thought it would be nice to open it up here for discussion of Packard Road Trips as well as trips taken or planned in other, undoubtedly inferior makes.

Funny stories, mishaps, and narrow escapes are fair game, as well as carefully planned and marvelously successful journeys.

We could include:

1. Longest Road Trip in a Packard!
2. Best mileage you recorded in a day.
3. Farthest distance traveled in one day.
4. Fastest average speed in one day.
5. Funniest police encounter... traffic ticket from admiring cop, etc.
6. Special things that happened because you were on the road in a Packard

The first 4 include several sub-categories for including "awards" for brass era, pre-war, post-war, and V8 models.

Road-trippin'-- and American tradition that could be in danger if we don't do our part. The hell with the economy, we can travel like Okies and survive on the kindness of strangers... hey, another category!

Hope this strikes some as good winter entertainment.

(I'll wait for someone else to start before blopping my own little adventure here. It's not a Packard story, but I've got a lot of them from when I was a kid.)

Here's a pic some of you might recognize--maybe from personal experience:

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