What a staggering list! I've never seen anything that comes close to it.

My favorite from the list is the dealer from the Bahamas: Kellys Lumber Yard Ltd... "Your one-stop shop for two-by-fours and Twelves!"

I have a listing for what I assume is a Packard Zone office in the 1948 Washington DC yellow pages:

Packard Motor Car Co.
(Wholesale Only)
1242 24th St., N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Tel: REpublic-0123

I added several DC/MD/VA dealers to the registry a while back (from the same source), but left this one out since it's not a dealer. I think adding the "official" Packard offices is a great idea.

Chances are this is the result of internet crawl bots which are indexing the site. Many come from outside the US, and will register as foreign "visitors."

I don't get to too many car shows, but twice I put mine in a very small car show. It was one of the small-town, combined hot rod/classic car shows, and I knew the guy who put it together. Even though my car is far from a show car, he insisted I put it in because most of the cars were hot rods, and nobody else had a Packard.

The show was in a little town in the middle of nowhere, and the locals, to be polite, were anything but well-educated. But I have to say that in both my experiences there, not one person even came close to a breach of etiquette concerning the cars. Everyone kept a very respectful distance, with not a single touch. Even the people taking pictures asked first if they could photograph the car.

I'm floored after reading some of the stories in this thread. What goes through peoples' minds?

This may sound crazy (okay, it DOES sound crazy), but stay with me...

With deeply crazed/checked plastic emblems, you can temporarily eliminate the problem and make them look like new by wiping a heavy coating of light oil, like 3-in-1, over the surface of the emblem. Leave it alone for a day or so, and then wipe it clean. The oil is drawn into the cracks by capillary action, rendering the cracks invisible.

The problem, as I mentioned, is that it doesn't last long. A month or two for the horn button, and much less time for the trunk medallion. But if you've got a bad one, and there's a show coming up, it could help out.

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Thanks for the welcome, Mal! Quite a nice site here, and chock full of useful information. I think I'll enjoy spending time here.

Darrin