Camelot - The Professional Car Issue 151

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Kyle Martin

received my pcs magazine yesterday and have already read it 3 times. cars of Camelot. outstanding issue. brought it to work to see if I missed anything. one of the best issues yet. as usual a magnificent read. makes my membership worthwile. a fantastic history of the cars of Camelot. superb!!!
 
your so right

you are so right. don't you just love the magazine. I have every one ever sent to me and I keep them on my desk at home and go back and re-read all of them from time to time. first class magazine for a first class club in my humble opinion. dues are so cheap and with the magazine I feel I get the better of the deal. can't say that much anymore....
 
Ford Museum Display

The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is holding a "JFK Remembered" week and has issued a special program to accompany the events. It's an interesting piece of history and can be seen at:

http://www.thehenryford.org/pdf/JFKRememberedProgram.pdf

One of the events is a presentation today by former Secret Service Agent Clint Hill who will be speaking of the events of that fateful day in Dallas. There is also an interesting article with a previously unseen video in England's Daily Mail newspaper:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uilt-49th-anniversary-JFKs-assassination.html

Just thought that these items may be of interest given the timely content of TPC #151
 
Glad to hear.........

I am pleased to hear that someone is actually reading this stuff that we work so hard to produce. This is an epic issue and the most timely we have ever done. Many of the photos contained have NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED previously. The world was never the same after November 22, 1963. Those of you who were not yet born will never understand how the events of that day changed our lives, but take my word for it, everything changed. We hope you all enjoy Tom's in-depth look at the most famous car in history. A HUGE thank-you to Willard (Bill) Hess, Jr., SA Clinton Hill, retired, and others who helped make this issue the fattest one we have ever produced.
 
It's a great looking issue and though I've only scanned it since its arrival yesterday, I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing later this week! I was a toddler when JFK was assassinated so it's always been an interest of mine. I recall reading some passages from The Death of a President that my mother got shortly after it was published. I think it was one of the first books about the event and if I remember correctly was largely a series of interviews with government officials and others involved in those November days 50 years ago. One passage that this then little kid found interesting was a secret service agent who was in nearby Fort Worth. Upon hearing there had been a shooting involving the motorcade either on the car or two-way radio he "stomped on the floor siren button" in his '63 Buick Wildcat and took off towards Dallas :eek:. I thought that sounded like a cool but kind of unlikely car for the secret service. Wonder if that was standard issue or did agents sometimes outfit their personal cars back than?
 
Brady D Smith said:
I am pleased to hear that someone is actually reading this stuff that we work so hard to produce. This is an epic issue and the most timely we have ever done. Many of the photos contained have NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED previously. The world was never the same after November 22, 1963. Those of you who were not yet born will never understand how the events of that day changed our lives, but take my word for it, everything changed. We hope you all enjoy Tom's in-depth look at the most famous car in history. A HUGE thank-you to Willard (Bill) Hess, Jr., SA Clinton Hill, retired, and others who helped make this issue the fattest one we have ever produced.
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I'm the one who is glad that we have such consummate professionals writing, editing and researching the fine magazine that I anticipate more than any other I receive and believe me I get a lot! thanks Brady, Walt, and Tom. well done!!!
 
Brady D Smith said:
The world was never the same after November 22, 1963. Those of you who were not yet born will never understand how the events of that day changed our lives, but take my word for it, everything changed.
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Brady is right. Those of us who lived through this time will never forget where wer were and what we were doung when we heard the news of Kennedy's assassination. I was in Mrs. Mong's grade 9 English class when the announcement came over the loudspeaker and the sent us home from school. Arriving home, I immediately turned on the television. With the family, I was glued to the grainy black and white images as we watched history unfold before our very eyes. We went to early church services on Sunday morning only to return to the television to witness Jack Ruby assassinate Oswald. We watched the heart-rendering funeral on Monday and those recent events were the topic of conversation at our annual family Thanksgiving gathering a week later. The assassination changed many things in the world...funeral service included. Earlier in 1963, Jessica Mitford's best-selling, nasty, funeral-bashing book "The American Way of Death" had been released. It was creating havoc within the funeral profession. Then Kennedy was killed and given a stately, traditional American funeral that immediately blunted Mitford's viscous, communist-inspired attack on the long established and necessary traditions of American funeral service - for awhile at least. Yes, everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when they hear news such as this. For our fathers and grandfathers it was Pearl Harbor, the death of FDR, VE and VJ day, for our generation it was the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination. For our children it will probably be 9/11. Let's all hope nothing as tragic as November 22nd or 9/11 ever happens again for them to remember in this manner.
 
Another BRAVO

These guys who put this magazine together are simply the BEST!!:applause: Thank you for another great issue!
 
Pro Car Number151

Fantastic not a club magazine but a University Level Thesis best ever a Big Thank You to all involved. As far as the 1963 Buick Wildcat goes yes it was probably a Secret Service car fast 425 Wildcat engine and sneakey. USA buys many strange cars for strange uses. I have a New York Checker cab fully marked as such BUT powered by a 350 High output engine DEA, had a 66 GTO coupe FBI, BMW 733 I again DEA. The DEA has a sense of humor all their cars have undercover registrations some of the owners read, Checker "Rambo Cab Co.", A Lincoln Mark "John B. Good",an Audi "Mitchel Miller" etc.:applause:
 
Brady D Smith said:
I am pleased to hear that someone is actually reading this stuff that we work so hard to produce.
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No worries on that. I for one read EVERY issue of TPC since the first one once a year or so. Im Milwaukee I bought the final 6 issues I was missing.
I can say these mags are better each time. When I think you cant do any better, they do, and get thicker!! I was not even thought of when Kennedy was killed, so like you said, I have no idea of how things changed, but this issue was a fascinating read!
Thanks for everyones hard work that makes these issues possible.
 
After just finishing reading the rest of the articles I noticed that 2 separate stories have no ending, or missing parts either that or I am blind. Page 45 (Truman's white horse Lincolns) the story ends in the middle of a sentence. Also, page 64 (The history of the assembled professional car) leaves off in middle of sentence at the bottom of the page, and page 65 starts a new sentence, and the story leaves off in the middle of a sentence at the end of the page, and does not continue anymore at all. I know mistakes happen, just wanted to bring it to your attention incase the printer is at fault.
 
One other question. On page 17 the middle left picture where The limo is at the hospital, is that the Oneal ambulance that carried Oswald in the corner, or just a police car?
 
Two small errors made by the printer.

Something happened during the load of the magazine into the printers format. It resized a box and left off two words at the end of the Truman story:

next issue.


The problem with the assembled car story was more complicated. Everything is fine except the last page which repeats the text at the beginning of the story. This messed up page will be reprinted and mailed with the next issue so you can insert it in your magazine to correct the error. This error is the result of a last minute photo change that was necessary to correct spacing problems. I say the printer did it. He says I did it. He's wrong but that doesn't matter. All we can do is fix it. And just to make it clear: Mr. McCall and Mr. McPherson had absolutely nothing to do with this error. It happened after I sent this to the printer and they took control of the thing and they claim I missed it when I signed off on the final proof, so bottom line is that this is my fault. Sorry guys, that's what you get when you have amateur volunteers doing a job like this!!

the text for the last page should read:

standard chassis from the wide range of different brands available in the country during the mid-Thirties.

This switch was given added impetus with Packard’s 1935 introduction of a complete range of purpose-built commercial-chassis. Although Cadillac had been offering such a chassis since the mid-Twenties, the entry of Packard into the commercial chassis arena caused a minor revolution in the manner in which funeral cars and ambulances were produced and sealed the fate of the assembled car forever.

When the industry's 1936 professional vehicles were unveiled in Cleveland, Ohio on October 3, 1935 at the National Funeral Directors Association convention, not one of the nation’s numerous coachbuilders was displaying an assembled car. Although Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, LaSalle and Packard-based vehicles dominated the show floor, numerous vehicles were on display with a wide variety of different chassis - all supplied by manufacturers of mass-produced, brand-name pleasure cars. As Miller had predicted a decade earlier, the assembled car was now as dead as the dodo.
 
Presidential cars

What a great story on presidential cars! I love the centerfold!!! Great issue!!!:applause:
 
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