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Blue Ridge Packards is an affiliated region of
The Packard Club

  
NEWS AND EVENTS

This page includes images and news from Blue Ridge's current activities and past events.

 

BRP's Fall Tour will take place September 30th to October 2nd in Florence, SC.
For more information, please contact Drusilla Carter at packardgirl@hotmail.com



Do You Remember?
Photos courtesy of BRP Historian Ron Althoff 

 
Late BRP member Bruce Walker with his 1935 Convertible, 1999 


BRP members enjoy lunch on the Star of Knoxville, 1999 

 
Lew Trent, Eric Thurstone, Emerson Duke, and Frank Saylor receive awards, 1989 

 

 
Past Events

 

BRP Fall Tour - Hendersonville NC

November 2009 

 

 

BRP Fall Tour - Balsam Mountain Reunion
September 2007
 
A rockin' group, on the hotel's porch. 
 
       
Some of the cars on the tour. 
 
 
Ron Althoff discusses the finer points of his Packard with a passing biker. 
 
 
BRP Spring Tour - Blueridge Goes Bluegrass
May 2007
 
 
The participants in the Tour pause for a group photo. 
 
 
BRP Annual Meeting - Charlotte, NC
February 2007
 
 
A whole bunch of BRPers in the lobby of the Levine Museum of the New South.
 
 
The BRP board meets on Saturday morning. 
(Very early on Saturday morning.  Thanks, Curtis!) 
 
 
PAC National - Detroit, MI
July 2-7, 2006 
 
BRP had a number of members attending this year's National, including Bruce and Thelma Walker, Bush Bushner, Boots Hager, Dudley Morrison, Emerson Duke, Jim and Helen Ragland, Jack and Nan Gaughf, Drusilla Carter, Ansley Starr, and Ron and Mary Carpenter.
 
 
The Packard plant on East Grand 
 
 
A bus full of Packard people drives (approximately) through the production line at the Connor plant.
 
The 4th of July was spent at the Packard Proving Grounds (PPG), along with an estimated two hundred Packards.  The weather was beautiful and everyone enjoyed the chance to see the timing tower and lodge, and to meet old and new friends.
  
Thursday's concourse was held at the Scripps Mansion, with sixty Packards entered for judging and a large display class as well.  Highlights of the day included tours of the mansion and a fashion show on the terrace.
 
 

Cars entering the mansion grounds for judging.
 
 
 

 
 
Upcoming events:

September 30-October 2
Blue Ridge Packards Fall Tour "Packards in the PeeDee" - Florence, SC

September 9-11
Packards on the Beach - Stone Harbor, NJ
http://www.midatlanticpackards.org/KP%20PATB%202010%20flyer%20for%20Panorama.pdf

October 6-9
55th AACA Fall Meet - Hershey, PA

October 10
Packard Truck Meet - York Springs, PA

July 2011
46th annual PAC National Meet - Galena IL



 

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