Re: Owner Registry

Posted by Ozstatman On 2007/9/12 22:25:09

Tom,

I check the Registry fairly often and it's only in the last few days that your oldest place spot was usurped!

My '38 was painted a Mercedes Blue about 20 years ago by Peter who restored it then. It was the closest "stock" colour he could find to match Packard Blue. Actually, when I first saw the '38 about 4 months ago just before I bought it, I first thought it was black. Then when Peter moved it out of the garage into the sun I thought it was a purple. I have seen the blue but only under certain lighting conditions and even had someone tell me they thought it was brown! I am calling the colour Aubergine which is french for eggplant as it is descriptive of the purple/black/blue the car is. By the way - because of this I have named the car Abbie-Jean (All cars need a name, since my first Model A back in 1963!). When I was in the US at the end of July I did see Ralph Boyer's '38 Deitrich Convertible Sedan - now that is Packard Blue - A number of photo's of Ralph's car are included in the link below.

I'll take some photo's of the interior of the '38, which was re-upholstered 20 years ago, and post them in the near future.http://picasaweb.google.com/ozstatman/CarsAlongTheWay24thJulyTo3rdAugust