Re: "The Packard Experience" at the Gilmore

Posted by 1508 On 2015/6/11 20:28:08

I don't like fender lights on 1935 - 39 Packards either. Everyone adds them now, but when these cars were first "discovered" and collected back in the 1950's and 60's they never had them. Look at old CCCA magazines from the 1950's & 60's - you never saw fender lights on late 30's Packards. People started adding them in the 1980's, especially after the one well known Classic Car accessory makers started reproducing them. Yes, I know they were in the original accessory catalog (someone even posted a picture of it for me on here in a past thread), but very few of these cars had them originally. I have a 1937 Twelve, and believe me, my car will never ever have fender lights added to it. Sorry, but I don't like Trippe lights either. The factory accessory Road & Fog lights I do like however, as they do not look to big for the front of the car like Trippes do.

By the way, does anyone know if the blue victoria pictured above was owned by Charles Crawley / MBNA back in the early 2000's? They had one in the same colors.