Re: Packard Panthers

Posted by BH On 2008/9/26 10:38:50

Owen -

Isn't the car in the last of your three pix a rework of one of the PanAmerican special jobs - not a Panther?

The other two Panthers that I'm aware of were a yellow/brown two-tone with a (removable?) hardtop roof and the black/white two-tone - both modified to include the 55th-56th Senior taillights.

Even before the Centennial meet, I had seen the yellow/brown Panther on diplsay in the early 1990s, maybe even the late 1980s, at the Stude museum.

I found the black/white Panther one year, IIRC, in the White field at Fall Hershey back in the early 1980s, but the paint was in terrible shape - cracked and peeling. Kanter must have had it refinished as it looked much nicer at the Centennial.