Hi Danny,
   Thanks for your posts and your efforts to get the president of this organization to answer important questions.  However, I want to give you some inside information on the proposed Oliver museum that you may not know.
   Now, all of this is private, but I think you are sensible enough to keep this info hidden.  I will disavow any knowledge of this if this info gets "out."
   The likelihood of the Oliver museum being built in South Bend is slim to none.  I don't want to be negative, because anything can happen, but the amount of money needed to run a modern-day museum is just not there.
   You cannot build just a pole barn and stick a few pieces of equipment in a corner and expect the public to flock through the doors.  By the fall of 2005 the Studebaker National Museum will build and open a new museum next to us (the Northern Indiana Center for History).  After that point, the HPOCA can forget about building a museum next to or close to us.  I believe that they had considered building on the old Oliver complex, but it was cost prohibitive.
    And with this rift within the HPOCA and its membership, it will take nothing short of a miracle to get this proposed museum built before 2010!

   Danny, thanks for your courage and fortitude in coming up with a logical and common sense approach to this problem.  I just wanted to give you this information because I noticed that some of the questions deal with this proposed Oliver museum.  BTW I have somewhat of a historical problem with the museum idea...only ONE model of Oliver tractor (sup99) was built in South Bend anyway.  Having this museum here in South Bend, with a building full of Oliver tractors, is not historically accurate or sensible.

Like I said, all of this information I did not provide you and I don't know how you found out.

Thanks,
Travis Childs