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Was thinking about a project that I seem to remember being talked about in the 90s or early 2000's where some group or individual was trying to organize interviews with some of the last remaining Packard employees before it was too late. Was curious if that project ever took off and if so, what happened to the interviews. Were they ever made available on CD or DVD etc or were they done and only reside in some library or private collection? If anyone knows the status of that project would be most interested in hearing the results.

Motor City region put out the Allison DVD with help from his family which I don't think was part of the project and there was another talk on TL by one of the factory development engineers that he gave at a PAC meet. Don't remember if that one was on YouTube when it was linked in a post on the forum or was private but made available for a limited time. Don't recall ever seeing a mention of anything from or by anyone else.

That engineer was my late friend Walter McCoskey, who worked with Bill Allison as an employee of the advanced engineering group at Packard. He is visible in the Bill Allison home movies, and is mentioned by Bill in the voice over. Walter sat at the drafting board next to John DeLorean and told me about JZD's false claim to have been "the last director of advanced engineering at the Packard Motor Car Company".
I knew a fair number of former Packard Employees, and unfortunately they are all gone now.