Perhaps the real approach would be Hudson/KF/Nash Rambler as an independents club. The Studebaker community is still viable for 20 years before they may need to look at options, though they are making meets shorter to accomodate peoples lives today. Not sure about the Packard people, though they do buddy up with Studebaker community.
Lives and the world are changing. It will be harder and harder to keep the torch burning...
This is perhaps an idea whose time has come, or at least has gotten much closer. 10-15 years ago, there would have been many vehemently opposed in each club to a merger - those still left who had started each club and been involved in the early growth, and those who actually had driven their favorite marque's cars when they were fairly new. But many of those folks are gone now, and the younger folks coming into our clubs were not even alive when these cars were still being manufactured. The newer folks would most likely be much more open to a multi-make club. Even some of us old folks would be too
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Generally the Packard folks don't seem to buddy up with the Studebaker folks, except for those that own the '55 thru '58 Packards (especially the '57/'58s that were built in the Studebaker factory in South Bend and based on Studebaker body shells). In the Studebaker Drivers Club, the reality is setting in that the future is not all so rosy unless a consistent effort is made to attract younger members; while different things have been tried, I think we are still losing ground in SDC although not as much as some other clubs. And maybe that will be the case for all the 'old car' clubs in the future, as many young folks today are nowhere as interested in cars today as 'we' were when their age. And a lot of the ones that are interested in cars are interested in modified cars, not 'factory stock' cars. I know I will get a lot of flack for saying this, but all the 'marque' clubs will have to be much more accepting of modified cars if they want to stay viable in the future.
Independents merging to stay viable -- history repeats itself!