Re: Dealer List

Posted by BH On 2009/8/13 13:38:30

Eric -

Thanks for your offer of help. I think of that kind of research and what we already have on a handful of dealers could be a good supplement to the basic contact info that is available from any factory list. Yet, I think it best to work on those details after we've gotten all the basic info "imported" from Dave's list, with user-accessible fields to receive that additional info.

Of course, there are probably plenty of dealers out there who don't appear on a 1939 list - especially after the 1954 merger, when many (though not all) Studebaker dealers signed on to sell Packard product.

Knowing what these dealers went on to do after Packard might provide an interesting, if only historical, retrospective view. Heck, the dealer that delivered my Caribbean Hardtop, new, is still doing business as a car dealer. (You'd think things like that would have been a warning to GM and Chrysler before they cut so may loose.)