Re: Had to laugh

Posted by Leeedy On 2024/2/1 13:46:23
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HH56 wrote:
That same car and story of how it arrived in US was featured in an article by Jim Hollingsworth in the May-June 1976 or 1978 (last number is blurred) issue of Special Interest Auto. In that article they were featuring the car's factory AC. At least the story is consistent but whether it is true is anyones guess. Since the article was authored by Hollingsworth would like to believe there was some evidence to support the story.


Ahhh. This one again. Myself and a friend, Darwin Lumley (we were both members of Society of Automotive Historians [SAH]) debunked this story when it first appeared. But the de-bunking never got published (yes, I still have the original typed manuscript to this day).

For one thing, MacArthur preferred Cadillacs. It is a fact that while in the Philippines the General had a Cadillac for himself and another for his wife. Those Cadillacs carried license plates that read: USA-1 and USA-2.

Furthermore, the ship that supposedly brought this Packard back from the Philippines was... actually SUNK off of Luzon in Layte Gulf prior to the return. So... uhhhh... that would be a neat trick for the Packard to somehow come back to the USA in 1948 aboard a vessel sunken in 1944.

There were numerous other questionable issues about this story. But it is certainly a good story and interesting car.

About twenty years ago, there was yet another of these olive drab Packards running around in Washington state... also being claimed to belong to General MacArthur.

How many Mercedes did Hitler own? How many pink Cadillacs did Elvis own? Well... apparently a bunch of them, huh?

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