Re: Historic connection

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/11/23 14:39:30

That 37 Packard (12?) with the vintage body style on the Life Magazine cover looks very familiar, I believe it was for years in a museum down in Tennessee or Arkansas. If it's the same car it was owned by some wealthy family who so loved their late teens or early twenties Pierce Arrow that they had the body remounted on the Packard chassis. At the time I saw the car (maybe 30 years ago) it was a very dark maroon. Given some time I may recall the name of the owner when new, or perhaps the name of the museum.

Somewhere I have an old Kodachrome transparency of it, perhaps I'll be able to find it.

UPDATE: Found the slide, I'll have a print made and posted tomorrow. Must be the same car (how many could there be like that?). Slide is marked "37 Packard with 1917 Pierce Body, Petit Jean Mountain Museum, June 1970".