"Feature Car" Bob Newlands & Jan Taylor 1927 Model 343-7P Touring     Events!    We have a full Calendar, for 2026. Current Events! can be found in the Brake Cables     Club Meetings   Are held with Oregon Region CCCA.....     Meetings for 2026 start with chat-chat at 6:00PM, main meeting starting 6:30 and run to 7:30 PM. They are held at the High Rocks Restaurant and Lounge, 915 E Arlington St, Gladstone, OR. This is a full service restaurant with a banquet room, where we will meet. See you all there!   See the Calendar. Lake Oswego Car & Boat Show Saturday August, 30th Lake Oswego Car & Boat Show:  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  Tickets are $30 online - $40 at the show.  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 7:30, Sunday August 30. Bill Jabs will lead us to the show field. Quinton-Cox Tour '26 Saturday September, 12th 9/12    Quinton-Cox Tour. Benefit for the Quinton-Cox scholarship fund. See the show website. The plan is to meet at the Lake Oswego Safeway at 401 A Ave, in Lake Oswego on Saturday, Sept 12 at 9AM to register. Cars will roll out around 10am. Final destination is the Tumwater Vineyard in West Linn. Annual Fall Tour Wednesday September, 9th to Sunday Sept 13th This year Bob Douglas is leading the tour. Details are Here.

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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