Blue Ridge Packards
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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
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.
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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