Andy's Packard

[Guest JT]

$425,000 and wiring problems <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=2368157

Andy better put Barney on the case <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

[Guest imported_Packards1]

I think Goober down at the fillin' station should have done the wiring.

[55PackardGuy]

I don't think that museum is the same as the Auburn/Cord/Duesenberg "showroom" is it? That place is amazing. The original showroom with offices above and literally tons of cars. They had the matching pair of one-off (2-off?) Gary Cooper and Clark Gable short wheelbase Duesenbergs roadsters there when I visited a couple of years ago. It was the first time the two cars had ever "met." Gable's was flashy red and Cooper's a much more genteel grey. I've got a ton of pics from there--anyone interested let me know and I'll try to get the scanner cranked up.

The great thing about the museum is that when you enter, you're IN a 1930's car showroom. Unreal.

[Guest Randy Berger]

That is a great place to be on Labor Day. It feels like you've stepped back in time. The local streets are crowded with all manner of old cars.

YFAM, Randy Berger

[55PackardGuy]

Brian,

Thanks for mentioning that styling studio with the clay scale model. This was touted as a unique design technique pioneered by Cord to tool up more quickly and cheaply than full-size clay mock-ups allowed. Fascinating to see the original model on which actual final dies for the body stampings were based. Especially on cars as striking as the 810/812 Cords.

[Mr.Pushbutton]

Hey 55Packardguy, I don't want to burst your bubble, but the two Duesenberg SSJ roadsters (the Gary Cooper and Clark Gable) were "meeting" together in 1987 at the Hickory corners "Duesenberg experience", a once in a lifetime show. 50, count em', 50 Duesenbergs. The good, the bad and the ugly. The Auburn museum is someplace any died in the wool car enthusast should see!, Oh, and I guess that sherrif Andy's $425,000 Packard is still a used car! The devil is in the details. Packards are quite solid electrically (very un-British), and as long as no one has "improved" things, should be simple to straighten out. J

[55PackardGuy]

Not really my bubble, but the museum's promo. According to them, it was the first time they had been shown together. I believe the time was fall of '98. Perhaps having them on display next to each other was considered a first-time event. I'll try to dig out those pictures and post them. It was a particularly nice display, since they had a huge backdrop of the "stars" pictures behind each of their cars.

[55PackardGuy]

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[55PackardGuy]

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[55PackardGuy]

Here's a shot of the showroom floor in the Auburn, Cord Duesenberg museum in Auburn Indiana... I tried to post the Duesnbergs, too, but they wouldn't come up. It didn't say anything about them being too big, and the Attachment button was activated. Maybe the ghosts of Cooper and Gable don't want to have their pictures shown on Halloween... <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, for those who haven't seen this place, here's something to whet the appetite.

[Guest]

Tahnks for the photo. I have been there twice and i highly recommend it to anyone interested in antique cars. I love the sense of going back in time when in the showroom.

[Guest AlK]

amen to that, our tour thru there was totally awesome. i especially liked the wall display of all of the cars made in indiana, since it seems that a lot of younger folks think that cars were never made anywhere but detroit, and anything they never heard of was made by ford or chebbie, including our packards.