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This is a sorry story. There must be some memorabilia to retrieve if and before Detroit is allowed to demolish it.
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No Michigan Region of either Packard club.

At least the front doors and portico should be preserved.

Are you talking about the entrance (door and facade) to the executive building? If so it has already removed and was sold at auction last year. Also the smaller side door was sold also.

(Me in front of the plant about 2 years ago. If you look closely I am wearing my PackardInfo.com T-Shirt!)

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Motor City Packards is a very active region of PAC. Many items have been rescued/purchased and are or will be on display at America's Packard Museum, The Packard Proving Ground and The Packard Musuem.

Mr. Pushbutton here is our ace reporter on what's going on in Motown. I'm sure he'll keep us informed.

Very interesting, the very city that tried to sieze the property from the owner, then eveicted all of the tenants--removing all sourcce of income from the owner, who worked with a shady real estate speculator (whose son owned the demolition company that was poised to take the building down) then kept the owner out, and allowed the beginning 8 years of vandalisim and neglect now is getting up in arms now that "the owner claimed ownership".
The city needs to pay for the demolition, and it can't happen too soon. It's a lawless place where scrappers work every day, and there is a good-sized fire every week, the DFD won't go in anymore, they will shoot water at it from a safe distance, that's all.
File this one under "posturing from city hall".

Great picture Kev! Amazing how long the plant remained intact and now so rapidly disintegrating. Think of how great a memory this picture will make years from now.

Jim

Friends

It's beyond time the body has a decent burial.

Ironies abound. The 20 million needed to tear it down might have saved Studebaker Packard in 1956. The money was around , but no one wanted to spend it. The money is not around now, but now it has to be spent

The argument is about possession of graffiti, which is about an un Packard like pursuit as you can find.

Regards


John Harley

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Sound to me if the City of Detroit is getting what it deserves for its seizing then mismanaging the property. Rather than have a tax revenue producing entity for the last decade, they've succeeded in turning it from that into a massive, expensive liability.

What an ironic, sad, shameful end for a facility in which was produced the most iconic, legendary and revered marque during the auto industry's golden era.

To know what the Packard plant was in it's halcyon days contrasted to it's current state is understand what has happened to the auto industry in general.

Steve

All the more reason to turn our support, financial and other, to the Packard Proving Grounds, the only remaining corporate property likely to stay in hobby hands.

Here is what the plant and my Clipper Super looked like in 2003. The Clipper looks the same, the plant has not done as well. Thanks Dwight.

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thanks for sharing these photos of your car and the plant. i am now using the one next the train tracks on my windows background....that was a good one! ;0) THANKS!!

Hank