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Two Classics, One Car. A Collector Shows Off Her Lifelong Favorite (neat)
New York times ^
| July 7, 2011
| Margaret Dunning
Posted on 08/20/2011 12:44:30 PM PDT by rawhide
After six decades, Margaret Dunning, age 101, still breezes down the road in her creamy 740 Packard roadster.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/07/08/automobiles/collectibles/100000000895665/two-classics-one-car.html
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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; car; packard
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To: famousdayandyear
I miss how it used to be.
I do too .....
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posted on
08/20/2011 4:56:00 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
To: Hot Tabasco
Am so glad you miss things, too. Pax et bonum
To: Hot Tabasco
Here is a funny thing - when I go out to plow in the winter, the ditches are full of ... audis.
Operator, head space, and timing.
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posted on
08/20/2011 5:04:58 PM PDT
by
patton
(I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
To: PowderMonkey
...the engine exhibited the neck snapping acceleration of an advancing fog bank... LOL, beyooteefull, juuuust beyoooteefull...
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posted on
08/20/2011 6:06:52 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
To: Lazlo in PA
As a youngster in the 50s.....my dad had a Packard Caribbean Coupe....gawd..I wish he’d held onto it..the hood ornamnent is over $300 now...
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posted on
08/20/2011 6:12:34 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK 3 miles every day.)
To: ken5050
A lot of people don't know this, including some current owners I bump into, but the Packard Caribbean had reversible front seats. One side is leather and the other is cloth. Those cars are a very high quality cars for their day. I can't believe how fast they went down hill into the Packabaker era.
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posted on
08/20/2011 6:23:49 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: yarddog
“Can you still get those tires?”
Whitewall Cancy Store.
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posted on
08/20/2011 6:29:42 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(uity wise!)
To: Lazlo in PA
Thanks for the great pic..
I'm positive ours had the big Packard hood ornament..sort of a "Winged Victory" IIRC.
My dad worked for Packard after the war, then Packard merged with Studebaker..I remember him bringing home the Silver and Golden Hawks, which I always thought were beautiful cars, far superior to anything else being made in the USA. Raymond Loewey was a design genius. And or course, later on, Studebaker's last gasp..the Avanti. I drove one the first day I got my learner's permit..
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posted on
08/20/2011 6:32:24 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK 3 miles every day.)
To: nascarnation
[The drums are just too unpredictable.]
Yeah, one drum will grab and pull. Or they will heat fade, or get slick, or whatever.
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posted on
08/20/2011 7:55:10 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
To: ken5050
Geez. A Hawk. Studebaker really made some high performance stuff. Hawks are some of the best sports cars of the day. And an Avanti. Your old man had taste. If you dig deep, the Avanti is the car that sank Studebaker. They put so much money into the development of the car, they couldn't stay alive.
I have a Studebaker in my barn with all the other old iron. A Gravely L.
Unlike this one, mine is all original. The mower attachment should be red.
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posted on
08/20/2011 9:03:12 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Not everyone is stupid enough to live where it snows. Why should gomers who live in the ice and snow dictate an inferior design(FWD) for 90% of driving conditions that everyone else who lives in a decent clime would enjoy? Fool. Eat snow.
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posted on
08/21/2011 4:35:09 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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