Packard 1948 Custom Eight Victoria (Back to the Future I & II)
The Packard was a make of car in the 1950s.
Emmett Brown owned a cream-colored Packard Custom Eight Victoria and let Marty McFly borrow it for the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. The car became the scene of the scuffle between Biff Tannen, Lorraine Baines, and George McFly.
When Marty returned for the second time to 1955, he drove Doc home after he fainted.
The Packard's license plate number was 8N39742.
[Text from Backtothefuture.wikia.com]
backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Packard
My favourite car from the trilogy of the 'Back to the Future' films is the Packard Convertible owned by the 1955 era Doc Brown. Not necessarily obvious to recent viewers of the film, the Packard is one of the subtle references to the privilege background that Doc Brown would have come from. The Packard of the post-war period were a challenge to Cadillac as the very best car one could buy. The Custom Eight Victoria sitting toward the higher end of the Packard range. The 1948 was the first new Post-War Packards, still utilising the pre-war chassis and straight-eight engine.
One of the other markers of Doc Brown's status in 1955 is his house. The following are a couple of interesting links regarding both his house and the garage used in the first film:
Doc Brown house from the film is a fantastic early 29th century home; 'Robert R. Blacker House' (no relation). I encourage the reader to investigate this house further, as it is really exceptionally finished.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Blacker_House
The second home used was 'Gamble House', designed by the same Architects:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamble_House_(Pasadena,_California)
This next link shows a visit by the SCCA to Gamble House with some great photos of very beautiful cars:
www.vaultcars.com/gamble-house-so-cal-ccca-tour
This Lego miniland scale 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria Convertible (Back to the Future I & II) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 45th Build Challenge, - "Everything Under the Sun" - a challenge to build any vehicle with an open roof, showering the occupants with sunshine (or rain if there is no closing roof mechanism). The model is also built to the 6th build challenge, - "Your Claim to Fame" - a challenge encouraging the builder to create an iconic model with some level of popular culture reference (to ensure lots of interweb exposure) -
Packard 1948 Custom Eight Victoria (Back to the Future I & II)
The Packard was a make of car in the 1950s.
Emmett Brown owned a cream-colored Packard Custom Eight Victoria and let Marty McFly borrow it for the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. The car became the scene of the scuffle between Biff Tannen, Lorraine Baines, and George McFly.
When Marty returned for the second time to 1955, he drove Doc home after he fainted.
The Packard's license plate number was 8N39742.
[Text from Backtothefuture.wikia.com]
backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Packard
My favourite car from the trilogy of the 'Back to the Future' films is the Packard Convertible owned by the 1955 era Doc Brown. Not necessarily obvious to recent viewers of the film, the Packard is one of the subtle references to the privilege background that Doc Brown would have come from. The Packard of the post-war period were a challenge to Cadillac as the very best car one could buy. The Custom Eight Victoria sitting toward the higher end of the Packard range. The 1948 was the first new Post-War Packards, still utilising the pre-war chassis and straight-eight engine.
One of the other markers of Doc Brown's status in 1955 is his house. The following are a couple of interesting links regarding both his house and the garage used in the first film:
Doc Brown house from the film is a fantastic early 29th century home; 'Robert R. Blacker House' (no relation). I encourage the reader to investigate this house further, as it is really exceptionally finished.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Blacker_House
The second home used was 'Gamble House', designed by the same Architects:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamble_House_(Pasadena,_California)
This next link shows a visit by the SCCA to Gamble House with some great photos of very beautiful cars:
www.vaultcars.com/gamble-house-so-cal-ccca-tour
This Lego miniland scale 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria Convertible (Back to the Future I & II) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 45th Build Challenge, - "Everything Under the Sun" - a challenge to build any vehicle with an open roof, showering the occupants with sunshine (or rain if there is no closing roof mechanism). The model is also built to the 6th build challenge, - "Your Claim to Fame" - a challenge encouraging the builder to create an iconic model with some level of popular culture reference (to ensure lots of interweb exposure) -