Re: Satchel Paige talking baseball in front of his 1941 Packard - Tallking Bobblehead
Posted by Tim Cole On 2022/7/2 11:49:52
It would be an interesting history project to research how Satchel Paige bought his Packard. It definitely must have been a Super 8 given the stories of him driving like a maniac at 85 mph through small towns.
Bill BoJangles owned a Duesenberg.
Given that chauffeurs often were assigned the task of buying cars those dealers may have been receptive to doing business with Satchel, albeit in the office and not on the floor. As well, chauffeurs handled service appointments so minorities inside a Packard dealer probably was not unheard of.
Another possibility is that Satchel did business over the phone and had the car delivered to him. A lot of those rich people never set foot inside a dealer. We did business with David Rockefeller and it was all handled by the chauffeur. And boy did they pay the bills. They didn't care what it cost. They weren't like these bratty rich kids today - they paid!
At Packard toward the end things seemed to be changing as shown below. And let's not forget Vincent Chen which is truly horrifying. I hope that is not what they mean by "making America great again".
In the corporate world it's all about white men figuring out new and different ways of hating each other. They can't do much about the women and minorities so they go after each other. Some of the shxt they pulled on me would have me rich as Midas if I was in a protected ethnic group.
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Bill BoJangles owned a Duesenberg.
Given that chauffeurs often were assigned the task of buying cars those dealers may have been receptive to doing business with Satchel, albeit in the office and not on the floor. As well, chauffeurs handled service appointments so minorities inside a Packard dealer probably was not unheard of.
Another possibility is that Satchel did business over the phone and had the car delivered to him. A lot of those rich people never set foot inside a dealer. We did business with David Rockefeller and it was all handled by the chauffeur. And boy did they pay the bills. They didn't care what it cost. They weren't like these bratty rich kids today - they paid!
At Packard toward the end things seemed to be changing as shown below. And let's not forget Vincent Chen which is truly horrifying. I hope that is not what they mean by "making America great again".
In the corporate world it's all about white men figuring out new and different ways of hating each other. They can't do much about the women and minorities so they go after each other. Some of the shxt they pulled on me would have me rich as Midas if I was in a protected ethnic group.
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