Re: Early Packard Woody Wagons

Posted by RogerDetroit On 2013/3/27 16:38:48

Hello Owen:

Yes, agreed it is the same car. At first I thought you implied that Marano purchased the car from Lamb. Now I see that Lamb was an earlier owned.

If the car was in lovely condition when Lamb passed, then the next owner let it go. When I saw the car (1990) the wood was mostly rotted away and what was there was bleached by the sun to a gray color. Frankly, it looked more like a pile of kindling wood than anything you would copy a pattern from.

Bill Chorkey showed the woody quite often and he sold it to Ralph Marano in about 2002-3. Ralph brought it to Detroit for the CCCA National Meeting in 2004 where he had it judged and it was painted black with the chrome disc covers.