Description: Packard Automobile database. Photos and information on every existing Packard antique car from 1898-1915 and more!
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In 1972, my wife, 4 children and I joined the Transcontinental Tour from Montreal, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico. Millard Newman led 21 pre-1915 autos on this, his second of many successful cross country tours. Our 1911 Chalmers constantly fell apart on the trip; but somehow we managed to make it run for the complete distance. I was impressed with two Packards that seemed to have very few problems; Howard and Judy Henry's #38052 and Ernie Gill's #26267. For the next Transcontinental, 1976 Seattle to Philadelphi
At the time of purchase, Bob showed me a list of Packard owners that he had written down on the back of an envelope. I obtained a copy from him and thus started my love affair with Packards and searching for all the early Packards that are known to exist in the world. Retiring from business in 1988, I found time to computerize the original listing and combined it with two other lists. One the efforts of Don Weber and the other of Terry Martin. I started working on the task of contacting the owners and gathe
-John Grundy