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This nice Kodachrome period photo of a new '49 or '50 23rd Series Eight sedan with the proud owner's wife and daughter is included in this The Old Motor feature.

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A window into another era. Now that's a "Simon-ized" shine!

Steve

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Neat photo, thanks for posting.

I only wish I could have afforded a decent camera and color film when I had my first Packards. Here's some photos of them taken during the late 50s to late 60s. Of course I still have the last one, I wonder if the other 3 survived? The 41 was Chickory Green metallic over Grove Green metallic, the '54 was Bellevue Green metallic over Galahad Green, the other two were black. The '41 cost $25 in 1957, the '50 cost $85 in 1961, the '54 cost $65 in 1964, and the '34 cost $900 in 1963.

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O_D, we bought a '41 One-Twenty sedan just like yours, even painted the same colors, for $35 in 1959. Used it for several years of dependable motoring. Neat car with an interesting history. I need to tell its story someday.

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JW, I'd love to hear the story of yours. Weren't they just lovely handling cars! Mine replaced my first car, a '37 Dodge which I'd had since I was 14, and took it to college my sophomore year and went to my first Hershey with it in 1959. Two years later packed with fellow students I set out for a football game versus Dickenson in Carlisle and spun a rod bearing on the way; towing off the Penn. Turnpike was provided by Paviole's (sp?) Garage, a Studebaker/Packard dealer in Carlisle. In the back of their lot was the '50 Custom 8 sedan which I purchased two weeks later.

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Dave, thanks for your period photos, looks like you had great Packards for very reasonable prices back in the day. I'm rather envious, by the time I reached driving age, good functional Packards for low prices had largely disappeared from rural western New York. Those I did find were either in too poor condition or priced beyond my limited means.

Here's another '49-'50 Eight gleaned from the Those Old Cars....Tumblr photo site, not glowing Kodachrome this time. Either the Harper ice cream stand owner or one of his employees drove a Packard, location unknown.

Steve

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Steve, in the late '60s I went to work for a speciality chemical company that among other things had a very significant business in photographic processing chemistries, conventional B&W, X-ray, aerial recon for the gov't, and C-41 and E-6 color print and color transparency chemistries for Kodacolor, Kodachrome, Extrachrome, Agfachrome, etc. We had an active camera club and I bought my first good 35mm camera then, a Pentax Spotmatic which I still have and use occasionally. If fact I only switched my primary camera to digital about 5 years ago. I must have many hundred, perhaps 1000, color transparencies taken in the 60s at Hershey and other car shows. I'll have to look to borrow one of those scanners for 35mm slides and scan them and see what might be of interest to this group though the Ektachromes have proven to be less than archival quality after all these years. Hershey especially in the late '60s and '70s was some experience - many of the cars then that were just daily transportation in the spectator lots would make a great car show today.

I made my own kodochromes digitally :

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BDC, I'd call that a sepia print, not a Kodachrome. But that aside I very much like the photo.

Well O_D, here's 2 more in the remnants of blizzard Goliath.

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Hi Dave

"Hershey especially in the late '60s and '70s was some experience - many of the cars then that were just daily transportation in the spectator lots would make a great car show today."

I'd enjoy seeing your photos from those Hershey meets. The 'parking lot shows' used to be nearly as good as the actual shows back then.

BDC: Snow tires on the coupe?

Steve