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Mr. Valery Chkalov was the Soviet Charles Lindbergh. In Russia his fame is well preserved. Below a snapshot showing him and uncle Joe, sorry, uncle Joe and him.
 The Packard of Mr. Chaklov in a museum, located in a Russian town, named after him: Chkalovsk.  --> This way you'll find two perfect pics, showing his blue car (on ZIS wheels).  sources pic 1:http://todase.kz/zvs55/2011/02/01/chkalov-valerij-pavlovich/ pic 2 & 3:http://www.birzhaplus.ru/avto/?27446
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Considering who she is and where she is... I don't think she's wearing raccoon skins. I'm betting it's Russian Sable. Goes well with the Packard (best of everything). Dave, or even selected top hairs from the black tail-tips of young ermines, solemnly plucked with a golden eyelash curler at dawn.   [picture source: flickr.com]
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...PS - Gusha, you are correct. What threw me was the picture you posted of Sea Cloud was AFTER her conversion to a U.S. Naval auxilliary in WW II - I was thinking it was of the ship "as built"... Yes, easily comprehensible. My quotation could be used as parade example, how we shouldn't use wikipedia. Spoken in quantitative perspective wikipedia is a compendium of free accessible knowledge that is able to bring down isolated kingdoms but afflicted with a kind of contour unsharpness. Another of my mistakes was to talk about a "Sea Cloud" which has been built in Germany. The ship indeed has been built in Germany but its first given name was "Hussar I".  Walking the Plank: this was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August-September 1887). "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main". Harper's Magazine. 
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Keith, you are the next in line. Look what I've found "in Grandpa's shoe cabinet".
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Posted on: 2011/4/16 6:10
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...IMHO, that squared roofline on the Chrysler looks so out of place on the round body,... Howard, I'm with you but as you know we always have to sort the designs in the time of origin. I believe that perpendicularity in those days were a symbol of seriosity and gravity. But while speaking of squared rooflines I would like to show you a Knightstown body. As Owen said, it is not really attractive (to choose the diplomatic way) but impressive.  Quote: ...Were there any similar Derham conversions on a 22-23 series? ...am curious if it would fare as poorly on a Packard. Perhaps not Derhams but I remember to have seen "cubes" on 22-23 series. Try to sweet-talk Owen to open his archive. [picture source: AACA.org]
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For good order's sake we should at least take a quick look at its blue neighbor.
Its rim color gives it a new zest.  (It is so-called Fukushima purple.)Attach file: (47.37 KB)
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No, I'm in the same loop.
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My last bullet, a photograph taken at a rally 1984. About ten years later the odyssey has ended in the Latvian car museum.
 [picture source:http://www.eag.unicweb.ee/a-am/PackardSuperEight1502_37-39e_Voru84.jpg] My thanks goes to my friend Igor from Moscow who sent me the picture links.
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Roger, the biggest of all Kevin's aka BigKev collected a couple of them in the photo archive, even an electric driven bus.
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...Is it my imagination or does it look lower than a regular Packard?... Victor, I believe it looks and it indeed is lower due to its acute-angled A-pillars. Against the backdrop of its year of origin it really looks sporty. What a mixture: sporty, powerful and majestic - the car for a King! Paint it red to run in a race, paint it blue to visit Pebble Beach or use a muted two-tone scheme (but roof and box tone on tone) to own a Grand Tourismo (Grand tourer) nobody else has. 1980  1984  [picture source:http://www.eag.unicweb.ee/a-sks/OpelAdmirallim_39_neljas_PackardSE1502_37-39.jpg]
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