Re: I wonder if I might be one of the youngest current Packard owners,
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You may well be the youngest owner/driver. The car looks great!
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Re: I wonder if I might be one of the youngest current Packard owners,
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Don't worry about the other Packard owners being a bit "grey" around the edges...please engage your own car-savvy friends, give them rides, show them all the quality ways that the Packards were built...then get a few of the really interested ones to join you (Please sign up and join the Packard "tribe" to come to the National meet in Kansas City in Early June 2025...specific dates will be set in the next 6 months at:https://www.packardclub.org/ ; it goes Sunday through Friday of the week). We had car nuts of all ages (22 yrs, 30, 40's, plus us old geezers) at this years meet...
We had lots of fun talking, fixing (field issues can occur and you have the best group of knowledgeable mechanics at the meet) and had after-parties out at the hotel fire pit this year. We want to pass our knowledge, parts and cars onto the next generation so you will find uncommon generosity and that comradery abounds...you will be immediately welcomed and included (don't sweat that). The swap meet is small but focused on Packard, so its a great way to meet the Packardonians. You probably are the youngest Packard owner I have met in a long time. Personally, I was 13 (back in the mid 70's) when I bought my first car (41 Packard) so I know what its like to feel younger than the crowd around you at Packard events (everyone back then also seemed like they were in their senior years) but you will build lifelong friendships (your years being longer than our remaining years) and there are many fellow engineers and technical people in the group. Also, your back-home friends will definitely know you have the coolest car.
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Re: I wonder if I might be one of the youngest current Packard owners,
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AFAIK the youngest out there currently is 14 with a 1955 Patrician. There was a segment in a recent Cormorant issue about him. But the median age of Packard owners surely is somewhere in the early 60's.
For what it's worth, the "young guys" I know personally are mostly in their 30's.
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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...Among the more feasible replacements, options were Daimler DS420, senior Packard, Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire or Studebaker President (some of the lesser feasible considerations include Jaguar XJs, GAZ-13 Chaika, GAZ-12 ZIM, ZIL-115, ZIL-41047, Nissan President PGF50, Mitsubishi Debonair, Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, AMC Ambassador, etc)... By the way, I know of at least one ZIL-41047 in the USA. It was -> for sale some time ago.
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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The website with history of that ZIL in the ad is now defunct so no answers there but as rare and hard to buy -- even for Russians -- as the high end prestigious ZIL cars were I am kind of curious how that car got here and stayed. I recall a TV show a few years ago where they featured the defunct ZIL factory and showed and interviewed people that helped hand build the cars. After the Soviet collapse they had tried to get the factory going again but had so few parts left or materials to make more that it didn't look to happen. It was enlightening to see the handwork and finish the guys were doing on the one or two cars they were able to build. There was a piece destined for trim and they showed how it started not as a stamping but as a rough welded up piece and progressed to a guy sitting and filing on it for days to the matching piece on the other side and what it would look like when finished. Amazing work. Was the for sale ZIL property of an oligarch that stayed when the Soviet Union collapsed or was the car imported like some other non US spec cars that were brought in by entrepreneurs in a time when they could bolt on a few US legal items so they supposedly became able to be registered. Sad thing in that scenario is those "grey" cars were often disowned by mfgs and legitimate US dealers. With the flags you would almost think it was a diplomatic car that somehow didn't get back home but that also seems unlikely.
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