The smaller race car (on the left in the photo of two cars) is, I believe, the Packard 122, built by a Packard engineering team that included Robert De Palmer for the 1923 Indy race. As I recall the team of 3 cars qualified well but then failed early during the race due largely to very limited development and testing time available because of holdups in the project.
I understand that after the race Packard were so disillusioned by the results that they canned the project and destroyed all their records. Now all that remains is a collection of press reports & photos.
There is quite a lot of info on this car available on the web if you do a search and the link below is a good one to start with.
http://www.king-of-the-boards.com/Packard%20International%20DePalma%20and%20Packard.pdf We will have to stay in touch as I am also planning a 1930s 'speedster' project.
All the best.
Matt.
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