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Probably not a 39 either. In 39 the radiator shutters were painted and chrome, so this is probably a 38.

Posted on: 2015/7/20 22:07
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you

Bad company corrupts good character!

Farming: the art of losing money while working 100 hours a week to feed people who think you are trying to kill them
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...Flag, I don't recognize, blue and white stripes?...


John (JW), I was looking for the flag too and found a couple of possibilities.

- El Salvador
- Nicaragua
- Argentina
- Austria
- Honduraz
- Spain

Well, the day will come when the curtain lifts. On the subject of Spain, we have another attempt. Alfonso XIII, King of Spain. There it says it is a Packard Eight or Super Eight Limousine 443, VIN 227047A.


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Posted on: 2015/8/1 16:21
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Five years ago I was on the brink to discuss a couple of pics that show an probably armored detail of a government car but then I've lost the pics.
Now I found a related photograph (shown below) at wikipedia.

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Photograph of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Ambassador Lord Halifax in the back of a limousine (10 November 1945).


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image #1 - LIFE magazine
image #2 - wikipedia

Posted on: 2016/1/4 21:13
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In January 29, 1928, the New York Times talked about "the potential candidacy of Governor Alvan T. Fuller for the Presidency of the United States". Reason enough for me to show him in this thread next to a Packard. There was one period in time when it wouldn't have been exaggerated to call him even Mr. Packard in person.

"In 1910, he moved his Packard and Cadillac dealerships from Park Square to a new, $300,000 automotive palace at the intersection of Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, opening it - appropriately - on Washington's Birthday.
The location was dubbed "Fuller's Folly'' because it was built near swamp land and considered so far from downtown Boston that no one would shop there. Instead, Fuller sold so many cars that other dealers scrambled to open near him, earning Commonwealth Avenue the moniker "Automobile Row''.

...by the 1920s his business was recognized as the world's most successful auto dealership."



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quotation #2 - Boston.com 2012/02/19
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Posted on: 2016/2/24 1:43
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Haile Selassie, "Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974" [wikipedia], visited Vienna in 1954.


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pic #1 - I don't know.com
pic #2 - delcampe.com

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Posted on: 2016/2/26 17:46
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Hi Guscha

Thanks for the insight into the Haile Sellassie experience with the 22nd Series Custom Eight limousine, perhaps it was inspiration for the following. In Robert Neal's Packard 1948-1950, page 197, is shown a proposal by Derham for a custom open state landaulet-style Custom Eight Special Parade Limousine designed for him but never built.

Steve

Posted on: 2016/2/27 9:27
.....epigram time.....
Proud 1953 Clipper Deluxe owner. Thinking about my next Packard, want a Clipper Deluxe Eight, manual shift with overdrive.
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Steve, thanks. The Soviets comfort the emporer in his grief by chauffeuring him in a parade car with Packard genes.

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Posted on: 2016/2/27 12:32
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His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur [wikipedia].

1939 Packard twelve, model 1708 (produced 9/20/1938-8/8/1939), seventeenth series, 12-cylinder, 175-horsepower, 139-inch wheelbase, 5-person convertible sedan (body type #1253). Photo caption on back from unidentified Packard source With the danger of war spreading to the near east this view of King Faruk I of Egypt inspecting his troops assumes unusual significance. The king is riding in the royal Packard convertible sedan, one of a fleet of eleven Packards which includes a special armored sedan.

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Posted on: 2016/2/28 0:01
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His Highness The Ruler Of Sandur State India.



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Posted on: 2016/3/3 9:15
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"Packard Co. file photograph of a 1924 Packard 143 automobile, four-fifths right front view, male chauffeur, parked on street. Inscribed on photo back: "Packard 143, first series single eight, 8-cylinder, 85-horsepower, 143-inch wheelbase, special glass-quarter brougham, body by Hovslageribolaget, built for premier of Sweden, Ernst Trygger."

Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.

Kevin, his name is missing (cut off) from the -> description in the photo archive.

The above shown photograph has been used for a newspaper advertising from the Swedish coachbuilder Hovslageribolaget.

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Posted on: 2016/5/28 23:32
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