TANKS
FOR THE MEMORIES
Eighteen
Corvettes meetup on October 14 for the Eastern Mass Corvette Club's annual fall foliage
tour. This year our destination was the American Heritage Museum
featuring the Jacques M. Littlefield Collection at the Collings
Foundation in Hudson, MA.. Upon arriving friendly staff directed us
to a spot where we were all able to park together. We were greeted by
Robert (Bob) Collings, who along with his wife Caroline, founded the
foundation. We were promptly escorted into the magnificent car
collection where he talked about the cars housed there. Some of the
highlights were a 1932 Duesenberg SJ Dual-Cowl Phaeton, 1927 Rolls
Royce Springfield Phantom 1 Phaeton, 1928 Pierce Arrow Series 81
Limousine, and so much more. The Springfield moniker on the Phantom 1
is because Rolls
Royce produced cars in Springfield, MA from 1921-1931.
After
our tour of the cars we walked across the property to a new building
that housed the collection of military vehicles and other artifacts.
There were video presentations and an amazing display, setup for
viewing the collection. One particularly moving display was a piece
of steel, from the World Trade Center, displayed between two American
flags.
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