Art of the Car! - Mid

Volume 32, No. 6
Mid-America Packards, Inc.
June
2014
The Data Plate is the Official Publication of Mid-America Packards – A Region of Packard Automobile Classics
Art of the Car!
Membership Director Steve Christy and Treasurer Mike Sneed would like to invite all members to consider the renewal of your
dues for 2013. Dues are still $25 for 12 months of our newsletter, The Data Plate, and 12 months of Packard fun. We have recently
updated our Membership Directory, and would like to continue to list all of our Packard friends within its pages.
If you have already renewed, Mid-America Packards thanks you for your continued support. If not, please consider doing so while
at the next meeting or for your convenience to, by mail:
Mike Sneed
8517 ANN AVE., KC, KS 66112
CHECKS PAYABLE TO: MID-AMERICA PACKARDS
The national Packard Club would like to remind you that all members of PAC regions like ours are required to be members of
Packard Automobile Classics. Don’t forget to renew your PAC membership for 2013 as well!
Visit Mid-America Packards at 1www.midamericapackards.org
Directors Column
The Data Plate
THE DATA PLATE IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY MID-AMERICA PACKARDS,
A REGION OF PACKARD AUTOMOBILE CLASSICS. OUR PURPOSE IS TO
SERVE, PROMOTE AND REPORT NEWS ABOUT MID-AMERICA PACKARDS
IN PRIMARILY A 75 MILE RADIUS OF KANSAS CITY.
Tom Norman
June 2014
TO BECOME A MEMBER OF MAP, ONE MUST ALSO BE A MEMBER OF
PACKARD AUTOMOBILE CLASSICS. WE ENCOURAGE MEMBERSHIPS
FROM OTHER PACKARD REGIONS. OWNERSHIP OF A PACKARD IS NOT
NECESSARY.
Thursday the 26th, we held a board
meeting at our house to discuss the
Merriman award for 2014 and changes
needed to accommodate more names on
the National Trophy. Plans were also
finalized for our September tour to
Topeka, Kansas. It will be the weekend of
Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th. Bill
Carney and I have been working on
activities for the weekend here is a partial
list: Air Force Museum, Kansas National
Guard Museum, the just completed
renovation of the State Capitol & Dome,
Todd Williams restoration facility, his Ford
Model A and 50 plus pedal car collection,
Bill Carney Collection and restoration shop,
plus more to be announced. We will have
block
of
hotel
rooms
to
be
determined. Want to invite all our
members to come and would like to
extend an invitation to the Hawkeye and
Great Plains Packard Clubs members to
join us. It should be a fun weekend.
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS ARE HELD AT YOUR CLASSIC RIDE, 2711
WARWICK TRAFFICWAY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AT 7:30 PM ON THE
FOURTH FRIDAY, EVERY ODD-NUMBERED MONTH, UNLESS OTHERWISE
NOTIFIED.
ELECTED BOARD MEMBERS
DIRECTOR -------------------------------------- TOM NORMAN
(913) 649-8383 tnorman@everestkc.net
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ------------------------------ JON ROOT
(913) 381-4994
SECRETARY / TREASURER ----------------------- MIKE SNEED
(913) 299-6133 papasneed@hotmail.com
8517 ANN AVE., KC, KS 66112
PROGRAMS & EVENTS DIRECTOR ------- MARSHA NORMAN
(913) 649-8383
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR ---------------------- STEVE CHRISTY
(913) 677-0593 shc2020@linkcity.org
APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS
TECHNICAL ADVISORS:
PRE-WWII ----------------------------- BILL CARNEY
(785) 272-9109
EDITORS, THE DATA PLATE --------------------- JEFF PACHL
(816) 628-0003 pachlj@hotmail.com
STEVE CHRISTY
(913) 677-0593 shc2020@linkcity.org
Thanks go out to Connie Andrews
for coordinating efforts with the Kansas
City Automotive Museum in Olathe for our
club to volunteer and help one day a
month. Please contact Connie and let her
know when you can help. (913-894-1376)
NOTICE!
ALL MATERIAL FOR THE DATA PLATE MUST BE SUBMITTED TO
THE EDITORS BY THE 10TH OF THE MONTH!
No meeting this month, but hope to see
everyone at our July meeting.
17704 PLATTSBURG ROAD, HOLT, MO 64048
OR EMAIL TO pachlj@hotmail.com
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MID-AMERICA PACKARD’S
2014 CALENDAR
July 15 – 20 – PAC National Meet in Warren, Ohio – Hosted by the Nat’l Packard Mus.
July 25 – Regular Membership Meeting – Refreshments: Pachl/Pavlicek
August – Tour to WWI Museum or Harry S Truman Library - TBA
August 31-September 5 – 8th Henry Joy Tour – sponsored by East Grand Packards
September 13/14 – Driving Tour to Topeka, with our hosts Bill & Jerrie Carney.
Bill & Jerrie have come up with a terrific itinerary for us. More details TBA.
September 26 – Regular Membership Meeting – Refreshments: Reese/Root
October 4 – Annual Chili Supper - tentatively set to be held at our regular meeting place.
October 8-11 – AACA Meet, Hershey, PA
October 12 – The 29th Annual Packard Truck Organization Meet, York Springs, PA
December 5 – Regular Membership Meeting – Refreshments: Sneed/Thomas
December – Annual Holiday Banquet
The Kansas City Automotive Museum
Mid-America Packards gives our support to the Kansas City Automotive Museum
– currently we have members volunteering to act as docents of the museum. You
can too!
In addition, we have been invited to park some Packards in the KCAM “Drive-In
Theater” setting. The museum will have room for us to display six Packards for a
one-month period, which would be a nice addition for the museum and great
exposure for our club and our favorite cars. If interested, please contact Tom
Norman.
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Pross Tid Cross (not surprisingly he went by P.T.) was a resident of Lathrop, Missouri during the early years of the
20th Century, an attorney practicing in Clinton County, as well as Democratic Missouri State Representative for his
district. He eventually became the Democratic Party leader in the Missouri House of Representatives.
In 1915, Cross was injured just outside of Liberty, Missouri, along with several others, during a head-on collision of
Burlington #4 coming out of Kansas City and Rock Island #3 inbound from Chicago. However, in spite of his
mechanical mishaps, he lived to the age of 93, passing away in 1969.
Mr. Cross tells his story of his first experience in motoring, and the trip that he and his wife, Nina, undertook in 1904,
only 2 months before his election to the Missouri State Legislature:
Article from “The Horseless Age,” Sept. 28, 1904
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Official Missouri House of Representatives Portrait of
P.T. Cross, 1906
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The 2014 Art of the Car Concours
Once again, the Kansas City “Art of the Car” concours was a wonderful show held
on a beautiful day. Steve Christy hit the lawn with camera in hand, and found not
only a few lovely Packards, but some Packard people, too! Dick & Sue Boswell
drove down from Lincoln, Nebraska with their friends, Jim & Karen Snyder (Dick
and Jim are pictured below) and all the way from Iowa were Russ & Marj Bees,
seen on the next page (photo courtesy Dick Boswell).
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Photos courtesy Steve Christy
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Kansas City Automotive Museum
Grand Opening!
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FOR SALE!
The last few pieces of the Zacher collection are now available!
Call Dr. Joe Zacher for more details!
(913) 648-2639
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1966 Lincoln Continental 4-dr Convertible –
Silver/Grey, blue leather, beautiful! Inquire.
Reproduction Packard Neon Clock, electric – appraised
at $1500, buy for $700.
Chrome Packard Cormorant Base, 1938/39 (?): $125
Chrome Packard Cormorant Base, 1941/42 (?): $100
Block letters P-A-C-K-A-R-D (large, trunk?), 1947/48 (?),
excellent condition: $125
Block letters P-A-C-K-A-R-D (small): $75
Not pictured: Car Trunk (NOT Packard), 30” long, 16”
Deep, and 16” Tall. Black leatherette, drop front,
metal trim excellent.
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THE DATA PLATE
8517 Ann Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66112
MAP member Steve Flick’s gorgeous 1948 Super Eight, on display at this year’s
ART OF THE CAR Concours.
Photo by Steve Christy
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