Re: Historic connection

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/12/5 11:43:11

Referring to the custom-bodied Packard Twelve pictured in #30 and #32 of this thread, I have just run across some additional information about it in the Hugo Pfau book The Coachbuilt Packard (see the Bookshelf for more info).

Pfau states that the body is indeed from a 1917 Pierce Arrow limousine originally purchased by Mrs. John D. Gordon of Norwalk CT. which explains the CT license plate in the photo from Life Magazine, and that she commissioned the rebodying on the new Packard Twelve chassis. At the time the book was published (1973) the car was in Winthrop Rockefeller's Petit Jean Mountain museum in AK, which is where I photographed it.