Don Hull, the long-time president of Packards International, as well as the editor of the Packards International Magazine, passed away on Saturday, September 25, after a five-year battle with colon cancer.

A memorial is planned for October 10 at Don's beloved Piecemakers store at 1720 Adams Ave., Costa Mesa, California (corner of Adams and Mesa Verde Drive East just west of Harbor Blvd.). Please arrive around 10:30 am for coffee. A short service will be held at 11:00 am, followed by lunch around noon, with music by the Piecemakers Band and a fabulous display of the object of his passion—Packards!

If possible, please bring your Packards. There is plenty of parking and the entire lot will be devoted to Packards. Also, bring your stories about Don to share!

Please let Cathy Hull cathy.hull45@gmail.com know if you are planning to come so that there is enough food on hand.

The "Pacarti" was featured in the Spring 1965 issue of The Cormorant magazine.

I see it now - thanks.

The car is (was) a "Convertible", the Mayfair name only being used on the two-door hardtop.

While Stalin's Packard IS a 1937, the car pictured in the article is a 1939.

Dealer Bill Rodekopf of Independence, Missouri with Nance. Many dealers attended a "pep talk" with Nance around February 1956 in Detroit, and had their photos taken with the Predictor.

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Check with Kanter Auto Products, as they may have NOS emblems.

The ad is wrong - the car is NOT a 2126 (which is the long-wheelbase 7-passenger / limousine). The car is a 2106.

I do not know who the two people on the left are, but the other folks are Bee Hamlin (partially obscured), Dwight Heinmuller (owner of the car), George Hamlin (in glasses). James Nance, with Tom Dudgeon in the back seat (who accompanied Nance to Annapolis, and worked for him at the Central National Bank in Cleveland, and at his management consulting firm).

There is an article by Ed Ostrowski in "The Packard Cormorant" (3rd quarter 2020, #180), about what might have happened in 1955 if Packard never purchased Studebaker in 1954. Well worth reading.