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Great article. Thanks for making the time to share this information and for leading the effort to find the missing Pan American's.
Posted on: 2018/7/8 20:16
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Always interesting.
I have a newspaper clipping dated Oct 1952, that says the Pan American sports car will be on display at Albert J Meek Sunday thru Thursday. He was the Packard dealer in Fort Worth. The article states only 10 models of the Pan American have thus far been built, but Packard expects to build about 1,000 in the next year. I have a photo by RW Graves with 5 women one identified as Queen in one of the fender mounted antenna Pan American. It appears to be in a stadium setting. Iin addition to naming the women it says only 6 made, but it also says it's a 1953 Caribbean. The car has 1953 California plates, but are not the dealer plates.
Posted on: 2018/7/8 21:11
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Thanks much for the very kind words!
Posted on: 2018/7/8 21:21
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Ahhh... well it would be quite nice to see the clipping and the photo you describe. Of course, if the antenna is on the driver's fender, it would have to be one of the later cars (in other words, after Pan Am #1). And yes, some of the articles back then got into wild numbers of how many were made. But we know for sure it wasn't 10. Of course, with California hard plates rather than dealer plates, this tells me that the car was registered... and that opens ALl kinds of possibilities. If you could email scans, they would be most appreciated. Every piece of the puzzle... Thanks much!
Posted on: 2018/7/8 21:26
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Leeedy,
Let me know if you received my email.
Posted on: 2018/7/9 7:52
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Hello Leeedy:
Solid research as always. Keep up the good work of preserving Packard's history. --Roger--
Posted on: 2018/7/9 8:53
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Thanks, Roger. Sorry I missed Bill Robinson's seminar that I understand you were assisting. How'd it go?
Posted on: 2018/7/9 9:29
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Hello Leeedy:
IMHO, Bill did really well. It was PAC who invited him and got his photos converted into a power point presentation. I was not there for the first part, but when I was able to break free I saw that the room was nearly filled. It appeared that he was telling his stories of his time at Briggs, Chrysler, the College for Creative Studies and what he did for Packard. Toward the second half I was able to bring in 4 of his original works he did at Briggs on behalf of Packard. He had a very long Q&A session and a number of folks stayed to ask him more questions. Poor guy had a long day. He drove down from Detroit early in the morning and he did not leave the presentation room until nearly 10:00 PM. One fellow told me that Bill's presentation alone was worth attending the National Meet.
Posted on: 2018/7/9 15:43
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Extremely fascinating and informative. Thank you for sharing.
Posted on: 2018/7/11 7:30
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