Re: Photo 7814

Posted by 58L8134 On 2010/2/24 8:18:03

Hi Guscha

Thanks for giving the correct spelling of 'scaphandrier', when I typed it it didn't look right but I couldn't find my reference with the correct spelling. Thanks for the translation as well, 'torpedo' was a popular description for phaetons in America as well.

On Packard books: YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY!!!!! Each covers facets, but no one book can cover every aspect of it's fascinating history. Reading everything and studying all photos is the only way to develop a fairly complete understanding. It also helps one know when to recognize and dismiss the perfunctory opinions about why the automaker failed.

Or, one can do as a Studebaker enthusiast friend of mine does, when ask why Studebaker went out of the car business he replies "People were stupid and didn't buy 'em, that's why".

He's a nice guy, something of a character, but not one of the great minds of the century!

Steve