This photo has a sentimentality to it for some of my family. My wife's Grandfather owned both a Henry J and a Manhattan. Just after he passed away I came across this photo and was able to share it Grandma. We actually had a print of it made. Pretty neat stuff.
Dad told me about Grandpa Fred, Mom's dad, who was at one time, a Packard man. And because Grandpa Fred dealt with penny ante stocks once a year, starting in 1926 or 1928, something like that, he was able to parley enough money out of his dealings every year to buy a new car, until he retired in 1966 (that's where the '66 Delta 88 was from...him). Anyway, one year, Grandpa went in, made his car order. then he waited. And Waited. And waited...for three weeks. He was starting to get incensed about it, because every time he stopped at the dealer to find out if the car had arrived, it was a no-show. So around that three-week timeframe, Mom's coming home from high school, and she sees a Southern Pacific boxcar, similar to the type Grandpa's previous cars had been delivered in, so she stopped and wrote down the car's number, and went home. When she saw her Grandpa, she told him about the car and gave him the car's number, and he called up the dealer manager, talked to him about the car Mom saw, then hung up, so that the manager could call the Union Pacific RR. Sure enough, after someone went out to investigate, the car had four Packards in it, so the manager took four guys down to meet the car at the unloading ramp, and Grandpa got his car that evening, with a substantial discount, all because Mom spotted a railcar.
She did?! Wow. I wonder what a vintage paintball gun looks like I thought I read this all before somewhere http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/threads/55-packard.48378/#post-424932
I may have said it before, or only related Grandpa Fred's car dealings. I know I've told the 'Family in the VW' story on here at least twice. So if I repeat myself, just let me slip the bonds of sanity and slowly sink into the muck of dementia.
Neat photo. I find it interesting that this dealership represented Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge trucks and GMC trucks.
