once an electric car garage, a bldg in Santa Ana has been a home to the Packards International Motor Car Club

the bldg is also the business location for Custom Auto Service, aka Packard Palace. I know where I'm stopping by next time I'm in Santa Ana!

Learned about it from the always amazing Hagerty newsletter http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/News/All-Articles/2013/01/07/Robert-Escalante?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Hagerty%20Weekly%20News%2001-07-2013

their website is http://www.customautoservice.com

William Powell and a Packard in the movie "My Man Godfrey"

it's been 57 years since the Packard plant in Detroit closed, it's been falling apart just longer than it operated. Why is it still sort of standing? All 37 acres of rubble? A good article to read at WardsAuto.com

Rome has its ruins, we have ours in Detroit.

 People may debate about which Roman ruin is the greatest. Some say it’s the Coliseum. Others vote for the Forum or the Baths of Caracalla. They’re all amazing.

 By consensus, the mother of Motor City ruins is the Packard plant.

 It doesn’t amaze, it dismays as a titanic industrial wreck: 35 acres of decay near the city center.

so begins a good article written by Steve Finlay, and the rest is at http://wardsauto.com/blog/packard-plant-mother-motor-city-ruins

its worth the read.

Bruce Willis has driven and flown about everything in the movies, from Tom Mix Duesenburgs to a 1968 Satellite station Wagon

 Above, Duesy with other cars on the curb just adding to the era correct look...
Below, Bruce stretched out in the Packard waiting for James Garner to get to the car

 Above images from the movie "Sunset" with Bruce Willis and James Garner playing Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp

Bottom image from the movie Moonrise Kingdom

Margaret Dunning, the 102yr old with the Packard, (you know, the one that's been emailed around for the past year) went to Pebble Beach this year! Hagerty did a great article about her 1st PB experience

http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-articles-resources/Features/News/All-Articles/2012/10/19/Margaret-Dunning-94-years-behind-the-wheel-and-counting?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Hagerty%20Weekly%20News%2011-12-2012 for the story

Briefly, she's been driving since age 8, and she's had her 1930 Packard since 1949.

A lot of people talked to her at the event, and some famous ones... Leno, Henry Ford III and Edsel Ford II, and that must have been a big thrill for all of them. Her neighbor was Henry Ford... way way back when.

one of the largest car collections is getting sold off in part, here are a couple of the unique vehicles to hit the block

the oldest surviving Ford sold, a 1903 rear entry tonneau

a 1900 Milwaukee steam runabout

1919 Renault torpedo

1933 Packard 12 convertible sedan, body by Dietrich

found on http://www.bornrich.com/john-oquinns-car-collection-sale-hershey-auction.html