4-page auction flyer sent.

I have the list of the 30 cars, engines, and bodies that were sold during the auction, which I copied from the Robert Turnquest collection. If you send me a PM I will send you a copy. Your car sold for $1,000 and it is noted that Mr. Blood drove it daily during the 1950s.

1955 Packard Patrician, metal “Tootsietoy,” with plastic trailer #P-10306. Very good, used condition. Trailer has side door (most are missing when you look for them). $55 postpaid in USA , includes Priority, traceable shipping.

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What year and model Packard do you have?

In 1939, tachs were an option.

I have sad news to report on the passing of Richard M. Langworth, yesterday, in San Francisco at the age of 83. Richard was the editor of The Packard Cormorant Magazine from 1975 to 2001, putting out 101 issues. Later this year, the 200th issues of TPC since Richard took over as editor (the 3rd Quarter 2025 issue), will be published, and will include a tribute to Richard.

For more information on Richard, and his rich life, please read the tribute to him by his son, Ian, at the website:richardlangworth.com/in-memoriam

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That's him! I believe this photo was taken in 1983, when Terry Martin started his cross-country drive from SF to NYC in "Old Pacific II."

I remember that fellow, Robert English, and can see him in my mind's eye He was in PAC's Northern California Region, and I know I took a photo of him, and other NorCal members back in the 1980s or '90s at a PAC Board of Trustees meeting in San Fransisco. He would advertise in PAC's Cormorant News Bulletin about the project. He is no longer a PAC member. I might have to check some older CNBs for a contact address.

When I drove my 1956 Patrician to the supermarket, and later my 1956 400, I would lock it up, and - if no one was looking - push the rear fender down and walk away. A few seconds later it would level up, and freak out the people who happen to walk by. One fellow thought the car was starting up all by itself, and he jumped out of the way!

Photo taken by me in 1988, during The Packard Club’s National Meet in Birmingham, Alabama. I was driving Jim Kaufmann’s 1941 180 LeBaron limousine, going back to the hotel from the judging site.

There I was, minding my own business at about 50 miles per hour on a two-lane road, with the driver’s window open and my camera sitting on the seat to my right – lens cap off. In the background noise I heard an increasing roar, and saw a blur coming up fast in the rear view mirror. Holding onto the steering wheel with my left hand, I blindly grabbed for the camera with my right hand and swung it in front of me, aimed to the left. As I clicked the shutter, Don roared past doing at least 70 (I never asked him later).

About a week later, after I had received my prints back from Fox Film (remember those days?), I saw that the shot had turned out pretty darn well. (The blur on the right is the edge of the vent window.) I had several copies made from the negative, and sent them to both Don and to Richard Langworth, who would publish my article on the meet in The Packard Cormorant magazine.

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Thanks for the laugh.