"The Arrival" 1932 Packard 900 Light Eight 11-21-10

Anxiously awaiting the arrival at 9:00am on a Sunday morning - South Carolina to Texas

Can you please hurry up?

 

Ark-La-Tex Packard member Jim Quinn standing next to his Packard.

The Unloading

The 900 on Texas soil

 

A sight for sore eyes

An interior shot of the 900

The 900 is safely home

CCCA Grand Classic Waxahachie, Texas for October 16, 2010

From L to R - Russell Chandler, Nelson Bates, Mathew Rattray, Noel Shorter and Norma Bates

Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie was constructed in 1897 by architect J. Riely Gordon.
Does it look familiar?
This is the same architect that designed the Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall.

The Historic Rogers Hotel is on the NE corner of the square.
Patrons could sleep on the rooftop during summer months, and there was a natatorium in the basement.
Northern baseball teams like the The Detroit Lions and Chicago White Sox would winter here.
We just did what we do best - eat lunch.

Mathew Rattray and his doppelganger Packard Caribbean. He owns one like it Down Under.

From L to R - Nelson and Norma Bates, Jim Hollingsworth, Russell and Tobi Chandler and the Flackmaster.

No stranger to Pebble Beach - Jim Hollingsworth's 1940 Packard 180 Club Sedan

Also no stranger to Pebble Beach - 1940 Packard 1807 Darrin Convertible Sedan - Hilda & Steve Chapman

Trip to Hershey part 4

The End of Hershey for 2010
The Brownstone Cafe in Middleton, Pennsylvania - Great lunch at the end of Hershey
What the non-car nut wants
Have you ever seen an ATM on wheels?
Packard Adonis - Sliding Boy

Trip to Hershey part 3

People making deals
Staggering after a long day of walking on the Hershey grounds
Droves of people in the car corral
Nelson Bates with a long lost love - 1938 Bantam
Eric Toce having a good time after a day with "The Packard Parts Hound" Flackmaster

Trip to Hershey part 2

Bates Clan - James, Warren, Nelson & Todd
Nelson Bates at "Car Mecca"
Scenic drive heading to Hershey
The Casselman Inn in Grantsville, Maryland - Annual food stop on the way to Hershey
Tree thru Dodge (close up)

Trip to Hershey part 1

Tree thru Dodge
Avant-garde yard art on loan from the Museum of Iron Oxide
1915 Apperson Jackrabbit - Have you ever seen one?
Nelson Bates and Warren Bates in front of the NASA facility in West Virginia
1932 Packard 900 Light Eight

"The Cajun Cruise" May 21st & 22nd (part 2)

Leaving Lafayette, Louisiana
Terri and Melanie Mcknight
Russell and Tobi Chandler

Lunch in Lecompte
Established in 1928 in Lecompte, Louisiana Lea’s has been a traditional place to stop not only for Louisiana residents but for visitors from all over the world. Lea’s has been featured on numerous TV shows and in magazines, newspapers and tour guides throughout the United States to the delight of old customers and for the discovery of new customers.

"The Cajun Cruise" May 21st & 22nd

Lunch at Cafe Jefferson
Its glassed-in porch, nestled in a grove of a dozen ancient live oaks, offers a breath-taking view of the gardens and Lake Peigneur.
Joseph Jefferson Mansion in New Iberia, La.
Built in 1870 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a twenty-two room Southern mansion, with a fourth-story cupola. Jefferson sited it among 350-year-old-oak trees high atop the salt dome, at an elevation of 75 feet above sea level - almost unheard of in the coastal areas of south Louisiana.

Johnny Toce in the kitchen
C'est La Vie
Arrival at the Gardens

Texas Packard Meet - Salado, Texas 2010 - Part 5

Lalique CHRYSIS Nude Hood Ornament on a 1939 Packard Twelve

Texas Packard Meet - Salado, Texas 2010 - Part 4

I'm partial to this car.