Studebaker & Packard advertising funnies

[BobPalma]

Ah, early Sunday morning and time to read the funnies before church. The newspaper isn't here yet, but the new Turning Wheels and Packard Club Cormorant News Bulletin both arrived yesterday and provide some amusement of their own:

1. 1956 Power Hawk advertised on Turning Wheels' Page 51. Features of the car to entice the buyer include the car having, an exact quote and a full sentence, "New dual exhaust bushing front end."

2. Advertised on Page 13 of The Cormorant News Bulletin is a 1939 Packard 120 Touring Sedan. Not some old down-in-the-weeds parts car, but a nice-looking car, well-photographed in a pleasant suburban setting on a concrete driveway as if it is ready to leave for a show or tour. The advertising copy for the Packard states, again an exact quote and a full, stand-alone sentence, "It appears to have overdrive."

Appears to have overdrive? I mean either it does or it doesn't, right...even if it is inoperable? <GGG>

Oops, Paxton the Rottweiller mix just barked upstairs, so I think the Sunday paper has arrived. Off to the "normal" funnies. BP

[Bill Pressler]

Man, I'm loving the inside front cover of the new TW, with that vivid color interior shot of the last Lark-type built in South Bend! What a sweetheart of a car! Nice to see exactly how many miles it has, from the odometer...23.8. The placard in front of the car at the SNM says "...less than 50 miles" and elsewhere in the TW it says the car has 19 miles!

[52hawk]

I got TW a few days ago-I must have read that '56 Hawk ad 10 times to figure out what he MEANT to say!

[BobPalma]

Right, Bill. The engine compartment photo elsewhere reveals an oddity; a correct battery hold-down...but no battery. (Actually, of course, you wouldn't expect one in a museum car.)

Hmmm...it would seem like there would be a market for authentic-looking "fake" batteries for museums, and it wouldn't be much trouble for reproduction battery companies to simply make gutless "batteries" for that purpose.BP

[Bill Pressler]

I often say I get tired of red, but that 1964 Bordeaux Red, and 1960 Colonial Red, is so rich-looking to me compared to, say, the tomato reds of Ford at about the same time. How I wish I could go back to South Bend's Stude storage lots in Dec. '63 with today's money and bring home a Daytona convertible, GT Hawk with vinyl SportsRoof, Avanti R2, and Champ half-ton. That's all!

[bezhawk]

I often say I get tired of red, but that 1964 Bordeaux Red, and 1960 Colonial Red, is so rich-looking to me compared to, say, the tomato reds of Ford at about the same time. How I wish I could go back to South Bend's Stude storage lots in Dec. '63 with today's money and bring home a Daytona convertible, GT Hawk with vinyl SportsRoof, Avanti R2, and Champ half-ton. That's all!

If you went there with todays money, you'd be arrested for counterfiting

[Bill Pressler]

If you went there with todays money, you'd be arrested for counterfiting

Good point!