Re: 1934 Pittsburgh Auto Show?
Posted by Jeremy Adams On 2009/4/20 11:59:16
Boy have I been finding out a lot of information about our car over the past week. I spoke with Ricardo LaCosta Jr.'s grandson about the car. He had never seen it, but his grandfather used to speak about it. Apparently LaCosta Jr. had a penchant for buying custom cars. He also bought a 1940 Packard 180 Rollson Club Sedan that wound up in the collection of the late Bob Russell.
At Dave's suggestion, I spoke to Mr. Pearsall. He had a very interesting thought. Apparently Packard had an event called a "Traveling Salon" that ran from Detroit to New York, stopping at the big dealers along the way - held in the winters. He said the Car of the Dome was sold at the 1934 tour (in Allentown, PA, I believe).
This could very well explain how our car made it to New York, and purchased by LaCosta Jr.
I contacted the Allentown and Reading public libraries to see if they happen to have any photos from the 1934 and 1935 Traveling Salons. Stranger things have happened.
I appreciate everyone's insight on this, it has been fun tracking down the history of this car. And difficult!
The next enigma... finding out what color it was originally. I am thinking it was Flama Brown, as that was one of the two Conv. Vic. colors in '34, and the other (Dusk Rose) is simply too light to fit in with the picture.
Now I just need a color chip of Flama Brown (and Phillippine Brown which was used for the mouldings) so we can start fiddling.
I have this scan of color chips... but who knows how accurate they are?
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At Dave's suggestion, I spoke to Mr. Pearsall. He had a very interesting thought. Apparently Packard had an event called a "Traveling Salon" that ran from Detroit to New York, stopping at the big dealers along the way - held in the winters. He said the Car of the Dome was sold at the 1934 tour (in Allentown, PA, I believe).
This could very well explain how our car made it to New York, and purchased by LaCosta Jr.
I contacted the Allentown and Reading public libraries to see if they happen to have any photos from the 1934 and 1935 Traveling Salons. Stranger things have happened.
I appreciate everyone's insight on this, it has been fun tracking down the history of this car. And difficult!
The next enigma... finding out what color it was originally. I am thinking it was Flama Brown, as that was one of the two Conv. Vic. colors in '34, and the other (Dusk Rose) is simply too light to fit in with the picture.
Now I just need a color chip of Flama Brown (and Phillippine Brown which was used for the mouldings) so we can start fiddling.
I have this scan of color chips... but who knows how accurate they are?
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