"Feature Car" Bob Newlands & Jan Taylor 1927 Model 343-7P Touring      Events!    We have a full Calendar, for 2025.         Club Meetings  Meetings are held with CCCA at..... Stop the Browser!!     Monthly meetings will no longer be held at Ernestos as they are going out of business. The August meeting at The Old Spaghetti Factory in south Portland worked well. The consensus was that we should try again as the location is more central. Next meeting will be on Sept 4th. The Old Spaghetti Factory address is 715 S Bancroft St, Portland 97239.  See the Calendar. Lake Oswego Car & Boat Show August 24 from 9am to 3pm,  is the annual Lake Oswego show. Another tradition is members of Packards of Oregon and Oregon CCCA attending the show as a group. You'll need to register on the show website To join the club caravan to George Rogers Park for the show, gather at the Safeway parking lot at A Ave & 4th St in Lake Oswego at 8:15, Sunday August 24. Bill Jabs will lead us to the show field. Visit With the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Association Saturday, September 6th: Is an opportunity to tour up to Skamania Lodge to visit with the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Association. They are coming in from all over the country for a tour of Oregon and Washington and they have invited us to come up to Skamania to see their cars, have them see our cars, and just "hobnob" as it were. We have planned to arrive at Skamania at 3PM on Saturday, Sept 6th. Making a day of it, we will: MEET: at Mcmenamin's Edgefield at 11:30am for lunch DEPART: Edgefield at 1pm for a scenic drive up to Skamania Lodge. We have not created a flyer for this, so pay attention! John Imlay and Bill Jabs are leading this tour. PLEASE RSVP TO JOHN IMLAY IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND.       2018 Packard Holiday Dinner     2018 Forest Grove Concours

WHO MADE PACKARD?

Well, Packard made Packard of course!

Packard was one of the greatest marques in the history the automobile, projecting the aura, prestige and excellence unmatched by any other manufacturer in North America during the years between the two world wars.  Packard has been described as being the automobile that, “expressed a young America’s striving for elegance, a tradition, a heritage to match the centuries-old culture of Europe.”  Many consider Packard the only real competition that Rolls-Royce ever faced.

The Packard Motor Car Company produced 1,610,890 automobiles between 1899 and 1958.

Packard produced a famous advertising slogan that is still being used for other products and services today.  It was originated in 1901 by James Packard, who believed that talking about Packards was a waste of time, best left to the owners.  When his secretary asked him for a sales brochure to send to a prospective customer, Packard replied that they had no literature and to tell the customer to, “Ask the Man Who Owns One.”

In 1921 Warren G. Harding was the first American president to be driven in an automobile to his inauguration.  The automobile was a big, beautiful, Twelve-cylinder “Twin-Six” Packard.  In 1937 the first car to cross the brand new Golden Gate Bridge was a Packard.

Packard was also responsible for many automotive “firsts” such as:

-          First to use a steering wheel instead of a tiller

-          First to equip cars with balloon (pneumatic) tires as standard equipment

-          First to include front and rear bumpers as standard equipment

-          First to use the selective gear shift with the “H” pattern movement

-          First to introduce complete weather-conditioning in production cars

-          First to provide sun visors

-          First to provide a package (glove) compartment in the instrument panel

-          First American production car to provide four-wheel brakes as standard equipment

-          First company to build a 1,000 hp aircraft engine

-          First to develop and fly a diesel aircraft engine

-          First American company to offer an L-head, straight-eight engine

-          First American company to offer a V-type, twelve-cylinder engine

-          First automobile company to build a 24-cylinder engine

To find out more about Packards, go to www.packardsoforegon.net which provides easy access to the Packards or Oregon Club and other resources on the Packard Motor Car Company.  An excellent reference is “Packard, A History of the Motor Car and Company,” by Beverly Rae Kimes.

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