"Blackie .... Chairman of the Board"
A real cool 1933 Packard Sport Phaeton dual cowl

Invites you to listen to his story about being invited to Pebble Beach 1999 and his 50 mile tour with 90 other classic cars on Thursday Aug 26 .... and the Concours d' Elegance on Sunday the 29th. Also his comments on his article in Special Interest Autos by Hemmings Motor News that came out 2 days AFTER the Pebble Beach Concours.
Blackie has picked me ... doc Hemp to write his story & do this web page for him, for which I am deeply grateful.
Being COOL with a good sense of HUMOR is a prerequisite to peruse his page! Or .... He'll hafta hunt you down like the dirty yaller dog that you are!! (note to the wise ... Blackie knew big AL .. as in Capone!)

A note .... Blackie & I (Doc Hemp) are VERY EXCITED! ... Blackie scored in the high 90's .... 100 points everywhere but for an incidental mark down in the engine compartment, which we expected as I refuse to re-enamilize the exhaust manifold which really weakens it in cars that are also driven. We wanted to be judged with the best of the best at the Car Show of Car Shows to see if my bumper to bumper face lift brought Blackie back from his last 1000 mile jaunt and we did it! Yahoo!!!

Okay, Okay, enough of the cutsie pie stuff youse guys! Dis is Blackie speakin .... So's LISTEN UP! Finally after all deze years I finally got to Pebble Beach! Doc & I decided to do the tour & show only to see what shape he had gotten me back into ... which is GREAT!!!!

Being invited to Pebble Beach is heaven to us cars you know! And I WASN'T DISAPPOINTED! I wuz put in the Dietrich Design Class by J. because he felt I am a Packard built car using an earlier Dietrich design - Click Here to see Bill Dobson's thoughts about this in the Pebble Beach Program.

Anyways .... David Kane got me a 1st in Class at Meadow Brook .... and he did dis without tearin my 21,000 mile frame all apart! Dat was good & I tank him for dat! Doc tanks him too as Doc likes original cars much better! Kanes one of doc's & my heros .... Heard him tell doc that tradin me for dat Duesenberg was the biggest mistake of his life. Well DAH! (I mean .... dares only a handfull of us Great Lookin Packard dual cowl Sport Phaetons around .... heck ... at Pebble & Blackhawk dare was more Duesys than Ford Pickups at da cowboy bar in Jackson Hole Wyoming!).

Ron Doss also got me wins at the National Grand Classic & the Port Gardner Concours last year. Ron named me Blackie, a great gangster like name ... I like it .... but ... he traded me for Betty Davis's ride .... geeesh! Big Al would be mortified! I hear Ron now wears PINK socks too. Hee-hee! Anyways ... so now I picked Doc Hemp for my owner ... a tough cookie for a candy assed dentist .... rides Harleys, races cars, etc. Drives a big live Steam locomotive around his place .... Big Al & Frank (as in Sinatra) would like dis guy! Doc gave me the rest of my name "Chairman of the Board" cause he says I have the Sinatra attitude & look about me.
Doc worked on me all summer for Pebble Beach (not to win there ... just to keep me up to past show standards of 98.5 points) ... new front spring covers, straightened hood corners & horn covers, stone dings filled in, buffed out along with all scratches, a little repaint, some new striping, 100 pt trunk with all original Packard suit cases, etc. etc. I now feel as good as I ever have in my entire existence! Life is Great!

I wants to tank Arch Brown (a world class automotive writer .... does a lot better than this candyass doc hemp huh?) and Bud Juneau for his fantastic photos in Hemmings Special Interest Autos article that came out juss 2 days ( on Tuesday) after Pebble Beach) Great article & Pics guys .... you done Blackie good! ... You can tell they have a new young buck (Newer sport cars only) for an editor though .... geeze .... put a Corvette on da cover instead of Blackie? .... I will have a talk with the Don's ride about him. Spats .... the flashy mid 1930 Studebaker President Sport Roadster in doc's garage with me even got his mug on the cover of Special Interest Autos - 10/1990 .... you can check him out from here too.

Well, time for a few photos, Hopes youse all get a little fun out of our pages ....

For a little history on myself just go to My History Page

We rolled into Pebble Beach Wednesday afternoon about 2 PM. Doc parked us in the Polo Field ... a dusty little place but quiet & lots of room for all of us. I told doc I was the best car he ever had & probably ever will have! (you should see what I have to put up with in his garage) .... That this was is his only shot at a Pebble Beach invite tanks to ole Blackie .... so's let's just have FUN! ... Can't win against the frame off multi-million dollar oversized paper weights anyways .... talked him into the 50 mile tour on Thursday ... Wuz the best part of the whole dang week! Even without a trophy this was the best car show in my life! Got to show my stuff on the road. And even with a sloppy nobody showing me scored in the high 90's once again! .... like I said ... life is good!

Doc registered for the tour wearing his fake ugly twisted decayed teeth with one silver cap & a Harley hat with long hair hanging down & sun glasses with piece symbols in them .... honest ... he walked up & said .... "I think folks here at Pebble Beach just take themselves too seriously don't you?" One of the wonderful volunteers gave him a great big hug just to try & make him feel welcome (really!) this was totally unexpected .... wish he had gotten her name .... I did hear him say oncest ... maybe if I can sell this Packard (joking of course) down here I can get my teeth fixed. After about 10 - 15 minutes when he finally took is teeth out & hat off there was roar of laughter so loud you could hear it clear up to the lodge (and a collective sigh of relief from more than a few I might add) ... Hee-hee!

Also, many thanks to Robert Talbott Shirts & Handsewn Neckwear for these Packard ties they gave each Packard entrant ... They have them for sale at all fashionable men's stores. Doc put his on immediately & wore it all day. Please call 1 (800) 747-8778 .... For a store near you. It is by far the best tie doc has ever owned an it still looked pretty good after he woke up the next morning with it too. Hee-hee.

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Goodbye all!! Dis is Blackie & Doc signin off! .... The Pebble will never be quite da same wit out us! But ... Dat's okays ... But like doc says ... never pays to take one's self toooo seriously in dis life anyways ..... Remember .... "IF IT AIN'T FUN! IT AIN'T WORTH DOIN!" and another of Doc's Quotes .... "Elegant is as Elegant Does" So .... I guess Doc & I ain't too elegant ... but we likes visiting elegant onecst in a while like at Pebble Beach.

Again .... our Classic Car pages and Pebble Beach pages are dedicated to the personal epitome of the Classic Car life style. The Creme De La Creme of the Classic Car World ... Lorin Tryon, Jules and Sally Heumann. These folks, I believe, represent the best this world has to offer.

Kindest of Regards to all,
Blackie, Dave & Becky Hemp

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