Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Orphan Motor Company: Nebraska’s last Packard Dealership gets new life

Bob Cox lives on a sprawling ranch in the Nebraska Panhandle. He sells ag real estate and insurance. He collects old cars, cars that are now orphans. Packards, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles. He also restores and sells a few, prefers to drive old Mopars like his rare 1963 Chrysler 300H and a 1965 Barracuda. A year ago he bought and restored the state’s last surviving Packard dealership in Scottsbluff. The dealer went out of business shortly after the last Packard rolled off the assembly line in Indiana. Today there’s a 1946 Packard in the showroom again, reminiscent of the one that his folks brought him home in from the hospital.

In this “Journey into Nebraska”, we speak with Bob Cox about the Orphan Motor Comapny, and just what it has meant to him, others and the community.

At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com

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