Two Classics, One Car

[Mosby]

[HooptieWagon]

1. Nice car, and what a cool lady!

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Incredible story, and what a classic machine.

I live near Warren where the National Packard Museum is located, and these cars are astounding, both in lines and in performance.

http://packardmuseum.org/

I worked for 30 years at Packard Electric, a direct descendant of the Packard Motor Company that later became Delphi Systems. It was based in Warren Ohio where they built these gems until the '30s. It's a great museum that was built by funds carved out of the 2003 transportation and highway bill by our wonderful democratic 17th district congressman Tim Ryan.

If you're in the neighborhood, stop by. I'll give you a personal tour since I haven't been there in nearly three months.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Packards were built near me.

As I pointed out in my other reply, the National Packard Museum is here in NE Ohio where the Packard brothers began building those cars, and I worked 30 years for Packard Electric making wiring harnesses for modern GM cars.

A few years ago a local art group sponsored a contest where they handed out large statues of the Packard hood ornament and had local artists paint them. The decoration is technically called a "mascot", and no luxury car of the day was without one. It's slangily referred to by collectors as the "Donut Pusher" because of the obvious form.

When the statues were completed, including one sent from California by Jay Leno's garage, they were displayed in nearby Packard Park at the amphitheater supplied by our congressman Tim Ryan: