Re: 1935 Eight by Graber

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/10/25 13:44:34

Sharp eyes Mal, and thanks for looking so closely. Unfortunately the data plate is a repro, probably done at the time of restoration and the info is essentially useless. I'd assume it was sold as a chassis and thus the VN would have been 1200-11 or higher. The current one is stamped as "12th" meaning series I presume, and a 8-digit number which may or may not be a Graber number, hence the interest if finding the Graber archives.

Since the factory cowl that would have come with a chassis-only sale is missing and the entire cowl is now a unique casting, no thief-proof number.

West, thanks for the Christies link; it is of course a different car as you already knew but may have served as the inspiration for this one. Most of Graber's work was on European chassis, I don't know how many Packards they did, but they sure seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately.