Re: Hub Cap CLOISSONE

Posted by Tim Cole On 2015/11/7 8:20:21

I think it's great that David found the Automobile Quarterly picture of Paul Lamb's 34 Su 8.

The picture was taken over 50 years ago in either Kodachrome, Ektachrome, or Kodacolor.

For the record, Paul bought the car new in 1935. It was his third or fourth new Packard and it was so good he kept the car as his family jewel. It was a convertible victoria with a Dietrich body plate and was never restored, repainted, or whatever. It also had a darker than normal shade of green paint on the motor which I have seen on the shelf N.O.S. senior Packard parts with the same color. So variations of Packard green did exist as Turnquist said. However, there were better preserved cars out there to use as sources and I don't call into question the present popular Packard paints.

So the issue is, why would Packard be putting special paint on its cheapest models like phaetons and not on a Dietrich bodied victoria?

As well, where are the specifications for this stuff?

I know there are exceptions. For example, chrome shell and shutters was a popular option on both eights and twelves and I have never seen any written sales material documenting that. But the photographic record is clear and I have seen lot's of original cars with that option. Including a sedan Paul Lamb had that was beautiful original.

I've seen lot's of Twelves with original plated shells that were destroyed when the paint shop took a grinder to them as well.

Paul also had a 34 Su8 business sedan with front door panels trimmed in leather and that was original. I have seen that option on a 42 Packard Formal Sedan where the rear door panels were trimmed in leather. So I suppose people can go ahead and put cloth door panels on a phaeton and call it original.

I know for a fact that some of this stuff is being made up.