Visit the Packard Museum to see Pentons and more !

[Paul Danik]

Greetings,

   The 19th. Annual Vintage Motorcycle Exhibit at the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio has opened and is surely worth a visit. The theme of this years display is "Designed To Ride" which explorers the various disciplines within the sport of motorcycling and has representative cycles displayed for each discipline.

   The disciplines represented are Service, Motocross, Off-Road, Observed Trials, Street, Touring, Basic Transportation, Film & Television and Versatility. There are 30 machines on display.

   The Vintage Motorcycle Exhibit will run till May 18th. For more information on the Museum such as hours, location and much, much more, just click the link below. If you have an interest in Corvettes there is currently a very nice Corvette display there as well.

   The Museum is very easy to access from the Ohio Turnpike, so if you are heading to the York Swap Meet, Daytona, or who knows where it will surely be worth your efforts to plan your trip to coincide with the Museum's hours.

http://packardmuseum.org/

   A booklet detailing the machines on display and providing the back stories of many of them was created for the first time this year and will soon be accessible from this thread...so stay tuned.  

  But if you wanna see Gary Bailey's 1969 Greeves Griffon that he beat the Europeans with and the exact riding gear he wore that day, or the 1967 Triumph Tiger Cub that Jerry Young rode to the 1972 Observed Trials National Championship, or possibly the 1962 BMW R27 that John Penton rode in the 1962 German ISDT, or if the terms Servi-Car, CMF 125, Jackpiner, TR 5 Trophy, CR 125 Elsinore, Berkshire Steel Tanker, DT -1, Black Shadow, R90S, Motor Wheel or Then Came Bronson mean anything to you...you will surely enjoy a visit to this exhibit. And that is just a sampling of the machines on display. PLUS, an incredible building filled with examples of, and the detailed history of, of all things, Packard automobiles in a building that once housed a Packard dealership.

Paul

   

[dennis brown]

I went to see this was a good evening .and saw old friends,as a old greeves rider I was surprised how stock the greeves was, a good bike for there time!

dennis l.brown