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Emmy at Rosies

            Jay Patchett, my father, was a Packard guy his entire life. This was his fourth and most humble Packard. Dad found her in Texas in 1994 and she spent the next 24 years in Oklahoma with lots of road trips to Hershey and other events in the car collector calendar. For several years, the Clipper was Dad's daily driver, with the only other car at the house being his first Packard, a 1939 Super 8 convertible.

This car was the most stripped-down car Packard could build in 1953. They stripped away the luxury features in order to sell it at a Buick price. A 1953 Chevy Belair would have set you back $1850 while the Clipper would have been $2540.

When Dad sent the first pictures of his new Packard in 1994, the color was a shock! "Uhhhh, did they do those as a two-tone?" After a paint job, Dad headed west to Denver where I joined him on a trip to Reno for that year's Packard gathering. I-80 at 80 MPH and she still got almost 16 MPG. On the way back, we tackled the loneliest road in America, US 50, straight across the Nevada emptiness.

According to available records, this 1953 Packard Clipper was originally sold to a Colorado buyer. I have that old title. She came into my care in 2018 and after dealing with brake and overdrives issues, she began enjoying being back in Colorado where she started her motoring career. She also began a career in pictures that year. Hey, a car of mine has to work for a living.

Emmy the Clipper has appeared in three video pieces, two promotional pieces where she appeared as the PBS12, Time Machine and in a piece for PBS on the forced perspective work, Kenneth and I do.

She also appears in the background of a few of our images, doing a sort of, Alfred Hitchcock like cameo appearance. She seems to enjoy impersonating Sir Alfred.

"How did she come to be called Emmy?" you may ask. For that, we must credit a TV Director colleague, Bill MacAllister. He got his first look at the car during an election debate we held at Denver8 TV.
Bill was teasing me, suggesting I tart the old girl up like a common trollop by replacing her hood ornament with one of my vintage microphones or an Emmy statue.

Then, Bill had a moment of brilliance, "Have you named her yet"?

"Emmy" was the perfect name for a sweet little old lady Packard. 

The outrageous color has grown on me.

This is NOT a forced perspective photograph but a real 1/1 scale car in front of a real background (with hazy, wildfire smoke filled skies).

Taken on: September 17, 2020

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