Monday, May 12, 2014

In The Garage

I seem to whine a lot about being new here in Ft Worth, having left all of our friends behind in Houston. Well, that is not entirely true. We do have several friends, living here, that are also our summer neighbors in Colorado..... and we got together with two of those couples, for  dinner on Weds. night. We ended up back at Jim and Jane's house, and I commented on a photograph of a very old automobile, that was hanging on the wall in the game room. Jane's said," Oh that Jim's toy and it's in the garage."

  
Okay, again, all I had was my cell phone, but I simply had to take a picture. Isn't that what all bloggers find themselves doing? I thought some of you would enjoy it's history. I hope I remember it exactly:

This 1931 Packard once belonged to the owner of a very famous canned food company in Chicago. Although, it was ten years old in 1941, he and his wife had driven it to their winter home in Arizona. When news of the bombing at Pearl Harbor reached him, he decided that they should fly home, leaving this car in the garage in Arizona, where it stayed for the next 25 yrs. The only thing that happened to it in those subsequent years, was that the tires were taken off and donated to the war effort. In 1966, an oilman from Midland, Texas bought it from the now deceased man's estate, and brought it to Texas. Our friend Jim is it's third owner.

Now I just need to figure out how I can get a ride :)
  
This is certainly something old that is in pristine condition,
so I am linking to : Rubbish Tuesday

18 comments:

  1. Oh yeh, you have to make a ride with it. That would be wonderful. What a story about the car!

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  2. You have no trouble making friends wherever you go! Taking a spin in this auto would be a great experience.

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  3. Hello:

    What an absolutely splendid motor car. And a totally fascinating and incredible history too. How we should love to take a turn in it!!

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  4. I wonder how often it is taken out for a drive.

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  5. what a sweet old thing! i'd tell you to link it to rubbish tuesday today, but that's alot of expensive 'old' there. :)

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  6. What a beautiful car. Let me know when you are out for your ride and I'll try to get a picture - with my cell phone, of course.

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  7. The things people find in attics and old garages! What a find. Did you ever play the card game "Touring?" I remember those old cars on the cards.

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  8. Yes, you need a ride. And you need to blog about it. It's nice to know the story behind the car, too. Thanks for linking up. Old is old and it would have been rubbish if someone hadn't given it a good dose of TLC.

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  9. Good luck on getting that ride! What a treasure! (thanks for stopping in at Cranberry Morning today)

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  10. Wow it is a beauty. Quite a history alright. MB

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  11. Now that is a car well-built!!!
    Lovely...shiny and well preserved.

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  12. ooooh...beautful and valuable rubbish...just love it !!!

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  13. What a beauty! What fun a ride in that would be!

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  14. Yep, you definitely have to get a ride in that beauty!

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  15. Hey, Janey - don't I remember from a former post that you might have some period costume to wear (or at least a hat) if you can finagle a ride? Yes, my friend who lives in southern CO is also getting snow. Hers will melt faster than ours, however. Snowing again in Breckenridge as I write this!

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  16. Well that's quite a history Janey, mind you most beautiful things do :) nice to know it contributed to the war effort :)

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