1947 PACKARD CUSTOM SUPER CLIPPER 7 PASSENGER SEDAN ON I-35 ON WAY TO SALADO, TX

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This is not my car, but I have known the car and its history since 1969. In August of 1969, a friend of mine in Waco, Texas was doing collections work in East Waco when he spotted this car at a residence with some children playing in it. The car was still in good condition and he inquired about it. It had belonged to a Bishop of the Paul Quinn College in East Waco who had made long term provision for the car's storage after his death sometime in the mid-50's. For whatever reason, in the late 60's the storage was lost and some of his descendants had acquired it. They agreed to sell it to my friend and he brought it home with less than 60K miles on it and otherwise in nice original condition throughout. In September of 1969, we drove the car on the first Bugtussel Tour which started in the little wide place in the road called Bugtussel and wound up in Paris, Texas for the weekend. It was brought back to my friend's home in West and he drove it some over the next year. In the meantime, another friend married in December of 1968 and his son Trey was born in early September of 1969. In the summer of 1970, we drove down to Baytown to visit our friend's in-laws with Trey's playpen set up between the front and rear seats and over the jump seats. When we got to Baytown, our friend's father-in-law fell in love with the car and ultimately bought it from my friend in about 1971. However, he did nothing with it and it wound up in storage in his son-in-law's barn in Dime Box, TX until <b>...</b>

Keywords

Salado, 1947, Packard, Custom, Super, Clipper

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