Re: Early Packard Woody Wagons
Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/3/27 15:44:48
The ex-Paul Lamb (now Ralph Marano) 34 1101 has been called by many the earliest Packard station wagon. I don't know if that's true or not, most early Packard "experts" think it was rebodied from an 1101-713 sedan by an early owner. The body is by Bridgeport. The 34 Packard shooting brake was definately not a factory offering. Curiously perhaps the oldest-known Pierce Arrow station wagon is also a 1934, that one by Cantrell and was shown a few years ago at Pebble with an accompanying Pierce-Arrow travel trailer.
Some years ago we had a local club member who had a 1930 Buick, might have been a Series 90, with an extended wheelbase and a station wago type body but with long bench seats on each side of the rear. It was supposedly built for one of the grand old hotels along the Hudson River to transport clients from the steamship pier to the hotel. I doubt I have a photograph anywhere but I'll look. It was really impressive but I don't recall if it was fully enclosed or used sidecurtains.
I wish I could help more. Have you looked thru the various early coachbuilders in www.coachbuilt.com? Anything in "The Coachbuilt Packard"? You might also consider given a phone call to Walt Gosden - he's been writing the column "Coachwork Lines" for CCCA and more recently for Hemmings for perhaps 25 years and is quite a historian of the early Classic-era cars.
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Some years ago we had a local club member who had a 1930 Buick, might have been a Series 90, with an extended wheelbase and a station wago type body but with long bench seats on each side of the rear. It was supposedly built for one of the grand old hotels along the Hudson River to transport clients from the steamship pier to the hotel. I doubt I have a photograph anywhere but I'll look. It was really impressive but I don't recall if it was fully enclosed or used sidecurtains.
I wish I could help more. Have you looked thru the various early coachbuilders in www.coachbuilt.com? Anything in "The Coachbuilt Packard"? You might also consider given a phone call to Walt Gosden - he's been writing the column "Coachwork Lines" for CCCA and more recently for Hemmings for perhaps 25 years and is quite a historian of the early Classic-era cars.
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