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BDC's post on the CL listings of the sale of the only remaining Model G Packard prompted me to ask, what is the oldest Packard you've either driven or ridden in? And perhaps what was the most memorable?

Mine would be the Carl Fisher car at the Traverse City meet.
What a privilege.

Only driven 30's Packards: 32,35,36,38

The oldest and the most memorable I have ridden was a 1919 Twin Six.

64Avanti, I'm not sure many readers would know just what the Carl Fisher car was, so let me post a photo of it, a 1915 2-38 Roadster now owned by Allen Strong. Maybe you'd like to fill in a bit of the history of this car for our readers.

DavidM, wow, I'm envious - I've never had the opportunity to ride in a Twin Six!

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Carl Fisher, the founder of the Indy 500? Looks to be on a shortened chassis. Looks good now, and must have really been something back in its day. JWL

Oh yes, a 1920 Twin Six. Hitched a ride at the Santa Fe Concorso a few years ago.

Not the oldest, but a most memorable drive. It was in a 1939 Twelve Formal Sedan. It was equipped with the column shifter. I wonder what the percentage of Twelves were equipped this way? The car is in amazing non-restored condition. It was an driving experience not to be forgotten.

Like David the oldest Packard I've ridden in is a '19 Twin Six.

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Well O-D, how about you, what's the oldest Packard you've driven or been chauffeured in?

Oldest ridden in - 1903 "Old Pacific II", driven by Terry Martin at a Perrysburg, Ohio Meet in the 1990s.

Oldest driven - Circa 1917 Twin Six at an auction in Los Angeles in the 1980s. (It was in 98% perfect shape and sold for about $18,000.)

One might think that with nearly 60 years in the hobby the opportunities to ride in vintage Packards would have come years ago but actually the opportunities have been quite recent. The oldest I've ridden in was at the 2009 Packard National at Warren OH when Howard Schaevitz was offering short rides in his 1902 Model F to most any interested bystanders.

Certainly my most eventful day with vintage Packards was at the 2014 Gilmore Museum Packard Experience. I got about a 40 mile ride in a 1911 Model 18, and later in the day a series of rides in Steve Babinsky's 1910 Model 30 which some of you may recall as a front cover photo in The Packard Cormorant. The oldest I've driven was also the same day, driving a 236 coupe by Merrimac.

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