Re: 1939 Super 8 Packard , Dual Cowl, Phaeton , Durham ~ Argentinian Parade Car

Posted by 58L8134 On 2017/9/3 14:15:16

Hi

Far more interesting than any notorious ownership or simply prior users in this case, is the custom phaeton body by Derham. By the late 1930's, most all carmakers had quit producing open phaetons for factory order. Anyone still desiring or needing such had to turn to the few custom coachbuilders that survived the Depression. Derham built a fair number of phaetons in the immediate pre-war years on a variety of carmaker chassis, even a '40 Studebaker President the company used for the 1939-'40 New York World's Fair events.

Steve