8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1929 Packard three-quarter right front view, top folded, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in rear tonneau. Inscribed on photo back; Packard 640, custom eight, sixth series, 8-cylinder, 106-horsepower, 140.5-inch wheelbase, 7-person touring car (body type #340), fitted with deluxe equipment, plus dual rear-view mirrors atop side mounts, special greyhound radiator cap mascot, windshield wings, folding tonneau windshield, note 1933 Pennsylvania license plate #57958, front bumper wrapped in bunting, 1933 'Twelve' enclosed body behind, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at train station in Pittsburgh, Pa. (1933).
Item #: EB01d464
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
"Photo taken in LaSalle, CO by Jim Pearsall, ca. 1985. Seventeen inch Steel disc wheels as shown are almost never seen on 1933 and 1934 Packards sold in this country but were used for the most part on exported Packards to the UK and to India, where today there are a number of examples still extant. The disc wheels were available for Packard Eight and Packard Super Eight, but not Packard Twelve, through the Eleventh Series."
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