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Found a story about someone buying a 37 115 coupe and have chance to buy it back 20 years later.
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/car-of-the-week/car-week-1937-packard-115-business-coupe

Went to a local carshow today, didn't even have a chance to really clean the car but still got "best in show".

The best story I got today was a gentleman telling me that his family used to live in a dry county and his father got caught several times when he would come home with a big load of beer cause the car was squatted down so much because of the weight. To overcome this he bought a brand new 54 Packard Patrician with torsion level so you couldnt see it was loaded!

I guess we can cut him some slack. He was off by a year and I have trouble remembering that far back too.

I do remember mom having a standing order for Schlitz beer to one of my uncles who was in Hale county Texas -- also dry at the time. We didn't have a TL Packard so she must have used some discretion in the amount or judicious packing or maybe cops just didn't bother to stop ladies with kids in the car. There would usually be a visit once or maybe twice a year and I know she fulfilled the orders.

He was by Slaton just south of Lubbock.

Moms family was mostly in Petersburg, also a few miles from Lubbock.

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I grew up in Lubbock. In those days, alcohol sales in Texas were voted in precinct by precinct. Only 1 precinct in Lubbock County was wet. The Slaton Highway cut through it. There were rows of liquor stores with drive-through windows alongside Slaton Highway. At 18, I was buying beer on "The Strip" as it was called, without my ID being checked.

All through Texas in that time, farm communities settled by German Catholic or Lutheran families usually voted their precincts to be "wet." My maternal grandparents lived in Tulia, about 72 miles north of Lubbock on U.S. 87. West of Tulia was Nazareth, a German Catholic farm community, and yes, it was wet. Every Friday and Saturday night, the road between Tulia and Nazareth would be busy with "pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land," a.k.a. Nazareth, to get their beer for the weekend.

I remember Temperance parades in Lubbock every time a vote would come up to allow alcohol sales in one more precinct. The parade would be peopled with Baptista and bootleggers - and many of the bootleggers were Baptists.

Here I recount My First Time (to drive 100 mph) - it was on the road to "the Holy Land":https://56packardman.com/2015/09/08/gear-head-tuesday-my-first-time-to-drive-100-mph-that-is/

Speaking of Lubbock and Packards, does anyone recall the name of the Packard dealer on Texas Avenue? The Lubbock Packard dealers listed here on Packard Info don't ring any bells for me. What I remember is Cole's on the west side of Texas Avenue, but I can't find anything here or at the Packard Club website to confirm it.

<i>'37 115 Business coupe"</i>

My maternal grandfather found a '37 115 business coupe in a barn, got it running and kept it for a time.

In the summer of 1956, I was nine years old and already a Packard nut. I was visiting my grandparents when I heard the news on the radio, station KGNC, Amarillo, that Packard was closing. I started crying. I gathering some rags, found a can of Simonize wax in a closet and went out and started waxing my grandfather's Packard, still bawling my eyes out.

I recount that here
https://56packardman.com/2017/06/06/gear-head-tuesday-the-man-who-loves-packards/

and here

https://56packardman.com/2017/06/13/gear-head-tuesday-the-man-who-loves-packards-part-ii/

A 115-C was the first car across the Golden Gate Bridge when it opened in 1937:
https://56packardman.com/2017/05/30/gear-head-tuesday-a-golden-gate-packard/

A photo of that car is below:

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My 55 constellation is the same colors and a texas car....wondering....could have been Hayhurst's car.... maybe. Who knows.

I've often wondered what happened to that car. When I've seen posts about your Constellation at PackardInfo, I've wondered if yours might have been his car.

I also wonder what happened to the '57 Clipper wagon that was in Tulia. Most likely it has been scrapped, but it was, as I recall, a farmer's car - so who knows? It might be rotting in a barn somewhere.

KGNC is still in Amarillo, it's a country station.

I have some customers in the Nazareth area and it's still a strong German community. The Catholic church is still the only church in town.