Dave, without the knowledgeable comments of yours and others this thread would look like many deadly boring car threads in the web: pictures of radiator grilles in series. Cordial thanks for giving structure and background.

Assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, in my experience less than 5% of Packards in the successor states of the former CCCP are postwar cars. That is very easy to explain. The overwhelming majority of Soviets Packards are war booty. A statement about the proportion between survived junior and senior cars of the 1930s is much more difficult. Despite of insufficient generalizability I estimate the ratio of 80:20.

Below a pic of a Moby Dick, stranded in Moldova, a godforsaken area, wartorn and poor.

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How good that you use the old names.


[picture source:http://www.vedomosti.md/news/Kogda_Zhelezo_Ozhivaet]

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Steve (hardtop), I wasn't aware of the fact that the pic was taken in 1938. Thanks for clarification.

Jim, even today one or another surprises can be found in the area of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. To find a Packard twelve-cylinder block is one of these surprises. But to find two of them side by side in Kharkiv, Ukraine comes as a stunner! Instead of making a challenge on grounds of bias I hope to reopen your mind.




[picture source: www.autoclub.kharkov.ua]

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Keith, Russia and Germany don't have a common border. To understand the warning sign and its inscription we have to look back in time. The quadripartite divisions of Germany and Berlin in consequence of WW2 have been temporary. Every of the four so-called victorious powers occupied a separate German sector and addional a sector in Berlin with own sector border. The above shown barrier (aid) with warning sign stood between the US and Soviet sectors and is written in English and German to inform your troops and German locals. In 1991, in other words 46 years after the end of the war the last Russian soldier left the country and Germany was reunited.
Today Germany is surrounded by allies and all frontier fortifications are carried away.
Dunno what's written at the very lower left corner.

Sorry Randy and all, it is as it often is, we went astray.

Like sheep we went astray

Like sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God,
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.




sources
pic #1:http://www.europeword.com
pic #2: Deutsche Fotothek
pic #3: Flickr.com
and Christian lyrics

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Randy, Howard, there is a chance to get them back. Log in and tweak the settings as shown below to hide or unhide the avatars.

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Randy, do you really not know where BigKev makes his money? He flog them all and has orders for 21 more. Mal, Howard, Keith, Jim and even the Kish brothers, ... they are all in over their heads with this money business.


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Thanks Mal, it's a pleasure to have you aboard. Just wait when the talk finally moves to redskins (no offense - only a play of words and colors).




[picture source: journal shiftwork, USSR, circa 1949]

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Bless me, father, for I have sinned. Stone the crows, I got a ride in a RHD Packard on the northern edge of Europe and forgot to ask for its history, not to mention VIN / thief proof numbers. To drive a RHD downtown on a busy road in a foreign country isn't a pleasure but a hard task. Its degree of difficulty resembled the first ride on a sidecar motorcycle. It'll makes you sweat if you never did it.





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JLB, welcome to PackardInfo.com.

Come this way to find a couple of information.

Both, the Packards and the Cadillac have been purchased for the motorcade of FDR. Two of them seem to be equipped with blackout lighting - the United States were at war in 1943, the year of origin of the below shown pics (the photograph above was taken 1945).



[picture source: LIFE magazine]

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Thanks to BigKev who vaporized the spammer.







[picture source: flickr.com]