The Packard Project
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Looks like it could use a rechrome. Lots of pits. Hot August Niles car show.
I don't usually shoot the whole car, preferring to focus on the details.
Niles, California.
Seen and photo'd at a small car show in Wisconsin. Applied several painterly effects blended together.
HSS
Packard war ein US-amerikanischer Autohersteller, der von den Brüdern James Ward Packard und William Doud Packard sowie George L. Weiss 1899 als Ohio Automobile Company mit Sitz in Warren (Ohio) gegründet und 1903 in Packard Motor Car Company umbenannt wurde. Das Unternehmen, ab 1904 in Detroit (Michigan) ansässig, war ein Hersteller großer, luxuriöser, hochwertiger, aber konservativer Wagen, die sich großer Beliebtheit sowohl unter wohlhabenden Kunden, Staatsoberhäuptern, aber auch Gangsterbossen erfreuten. Der Packard Modell A von 1899 war das erste Auto mit Kulissenschaltung. Bis dahin wurden Fahrzeuggetriebe seriell geschaltet, das heißt man konnte immer nur einen Gang herauf- oder herunterschalten.
Blue for You - ME 2019
Photo of the 1931 Packard 840 Custom Dual Cowl Phaeton was taken at Stahl's Automotive Museum in New Baltimore, Michigan.
Oakmont Car Show, Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A. May 22, 2018
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My friend Don checking out this beautiful Packard (I don't remember the model year, but I'm thinking 1938) at the Hot August Niles car show last year.
Niles, California.
Mercadillo/exposición Vehículos Antiguos en Villaciosa de Odón.
Villaviciosa de Odón - Madrid - España - Spain
1937 Packard Super Eight 1500 Touring Sedan, with it's Cormorant mascot taken from the Packard family crest.
I'm on the road, and will resume commenting on your (you know who you are) images when I return home in a few days.
Mercadillo/exposición Vehículos Antiguos en Villaciosa de Odón.
Villaviciosa de Odón - Madrid - España - Spain
Mercadillo/exposición Vehículos Antiguos en Villaciosa de Odón.
Villaviciosa de Odón - Madrid - España - Spain
The Packard 443 model was unveiled on July 1, 1927. These new “Big Eight” models were still considered part of the 4th series of Packard and all rode on an imposing 143” wheelbase chassis. The Packard 443 catalog offered no less than twenty different body arrangements, ensuring that all individual tastes were well suited. While approximately 7,800 443 chassis were built for 1928, the varying bodies meant that individual production numbers were quite low, with open bodied cars being procured by the most affluent of clientele. Body style 311 was the Custom Eight 443 5-passenger Phaeton – a very imposing aesthetic for the Great Depression era. The Custom Eight 443 Phaeton featured dual side mounts spares and numerous accessories including a folding luggage rack with a removable trunk as well as a rear folding tonneau windshield that could be adjusted by the rear passengers. Today, the Packard 443 Phaeton is considered to be one the marque’s greatest models because it achieved a level of engineering, style and luxury that could only come from Packard.
This absolutely stunning coach built by Rollston 1937 Packard took top honors at 2024's Lime Rock Labor Day event with a Best in Show.
A little about Rollston, the coachbuilder here:
Rollston began after World War I as a body repair shop in Manhattan and soon expanded into coachbuilding. New Yorker Harry Lonschein was 16 when he became employed by Brewster & Co. He would go on to found Rollston Co. together with his partner Sam Blotkin. They were admirers of Rolls-Royce and wanted the name of their business to honor it, say, as a "son of Rolls". Why the letter "t" was added to the new name is not known, though Rollston was a somewhat familiar surname seen at the time.
Changing Rollston's primary business to coachbuilding came from work for the New York distributors for Packard and Minerva. There were often several similar designs built, but never in large quantity series. The emphasis was on the one-of-a-kind body. Relatively few Rollston bodies were built, yet their special character continues to make them well known.
From July of 1927 to April of 1931 - Rollston's all-time busiest period ? the firm produced a total of 218 bodies, an average of 50+ per year. Rollston bodies appeared on Bugatti, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, Cord, Duesenberg, Ford, Hispano-Suiza, Lancia, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Packard, Peerless, Pierce-Arrow, Rolls Royce, Stearns Knight and Stutz chassis.
From their very start, Rollston specialized in Town Cars or Town Cabriolets, a limousine that features an open chauffeur's compart-ment and leather-covered, closed rear quarters. Although it appeared to be a series-built body, in fact each one was custom-built to order, displaying subtle differences from one body to the next such as in the arrangement of the window surrounds or beltline molding. Rollston’s early bodies were very conservative and bore a resemblance to the town cars being built by Derham and Holbrook at the time, not surprising since all three firms did business with Packard’s Grover C. Parvis. His personal taste and sales experience had a con-siderable effect on the bodies he ordered.
The company survived the Great Depression, but was forced to close in 1938, because many car manufacturers had started producing their own bodies in series.