Peking to Paris 2016 Motor Challenge
One of my life long dreams has been of having the opportunity to participate in a great race or rally. My long time dream is about to become reality as my wife Pat and I will be submitting our application for the 2016 Rally from Beijing to Paris. We recieved the application from the Endurance…
To all of you who have been following our progress I am please to inform that our Packard arrived safe and sound today. Next is to go over the car and get it running in order to evaluate the next course of action. On the 2016 Peking to Paris Admission Package that needs to be completed,…
I found a 1937 Packard 120 originally advertised as a 1936 in California that might be the car; Very nice and clean car. It has been in the family since the early 1980’s when purchased by the father and daughter kept the car for number of years.
We were unable to secure a high bid on the 1936 Packard in Maryland. The bidding ended at $58,200 plus buyer’s premium. There where a few others who where quite surprised at the final result – higher than anticipated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNJhD5pM08M After searching all the usual places such as Hemmings Motor News, eBay, local and national…
Thus far, I continue to soak up everything like a sponge relating to the previous Peking to Paris rallies. For me, the major challenge is remembering all those unusual names of places that I keep reading about and they are starting to run together. Now for my updates, I located a car of interest in…
