Re: Warren July 25, 2009

Posted by 1508 On 2009/8/27 11:01:13

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but the red 1937 Super Eight victoria that was under the tent in Warren does NOT bear a Rollston body. I, along with several other long time knowlegable people, looked at this car very closely at Warren last month. The body is a factory 1935 - 1936 Packard victoria body. Remember 1935 & 1936 had suicide doors while in 1937 they opened from the rear. Really the only thing unique about the body is the rear quarter windows, but the chrome frames on them looked like they were off of a car from the 1950's. The frames didn't match the front chrome window frames in the doors either. Don't tell me Rollston would have built a car with the quarter window frames a different style & width than the frames in the front doors. Some could say the car was brought to Rollston a couple years after it was built to be updated. While this did occur on a few occasions, those rear quarter windows frames were obviously "factory made" and came off of another car. My guess is that when the prior owner was trying to made a hot rod out of it this was one of the modifications they did for better vision. I don't have a problem with the car itself, and I'm glad it was put back to resemble something that was made in 1936/1937, but calling it a Rollston body is inaccurate.