I fortunately was born into a car collecting family.
In 1955ish my grandparents, who lived in Darien Connecticut, bought a Black 1919 Dodge Touring car & a 14 year old White 1934 Packard Super 8 Convertible Coupe Roadster with a single rear mounted spare. My mom drove the Packard to Darien High School her Junior & Senior years. She married Jonathan "Jack" Adams in 1960, my brother was born in March of 1963. My mom & brother were driven home in the 1934 Packard.
In 1959, having sold the 1919 Dodge, my grandfather bought a 1914 KisselKar 4-40 Touring. Which I still own & have on permanent loan to the Hartford Auto Museum in Wisconsin where the cars were made from 1906-1930.
50 years ago my grandparents owned 3 one-of-a kind antique & classic cars. A 1913 Armleder, found derelict in a field in Connecticut, which he & a gifted metalworker friend rebuilt as a "Depot Hack". This was sold in 1977 & is now part of a German Auto Museum. The 1914 KisselKar mentioned in Wisconsin. Th "Crown Jewel" of the 3 cars was his stewardship of the Individual Custom 1932 Twin Six Dietrich Convertible Victoria with rear mounted spares, which he owned from 1964-1979. This Packard was restored by RM & won the Packard Open Class, Most Elegant Packard & was in the running for Best of Show at Pebble Beach in 2017. In the 1979 cash & trade sale of the "Twin Six" came a 1005 1933 Packard Twelve Convertible Coupe Roadster, which is what I learned to drive in.
When my grandfather passed away in 1998 the 1914 KisselKar & 1933 Packard were left to me. In 2018 I parted ways with the 1933 Packard. Ultimately rehoming it to a family in Greenwich CT who have 2 teenage sons & now own 4 Packards. A 1930 Boat Tail Speedster, a 1932 Standard 8 Sport Phaeton, my-ex 1933 Twelve, originally delivered to Bridgeport CT in March 1933 to business man in NJ & 1948 Super 8 Sedan, the only year the only external place it says Packard on the trunk lid.
