Re: Identifying 1939 Super 8 Limo

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/1/17 9:00:14

Bill, Rollston/Rollson did tend to specialize in the formal closed body styles but did others as well, open touring cars and roadsters for example. If you have it, you should look at page 172 of Hugo Pfau's The Coachbuilt Packard, it has some Packards not entirely dissimilar to yours, though not the same. Or, go to www.coachbuilt.com and check out some of the later Rollston/Rollson styles.

But with certainty a Rollston/Rollson would have had their identifying badge or name somewhere. If indeed it is a Rollston, the company is still in business under another name over in Long Island I believe, and Rudy Creteur Jr, son or grandson of the owner during the Classic era, still sometimes provides access to their archives of production data.

How about some more detailed photos?