Re: Packard Model Info (1946/1947)

Posted by Tim Cole On 2012/8/28 10:08:15

Dear JD:

OD is right, Skop told me the car was modified for some state governor (I don't remember which) and that he (Skop) paid too much for it. Unable to get his money back he gave it to the Packard Museum.

Most of his cars deteriorated and he should have gotten rid of them. The Packard Town Car was a beautiful original purchased from Jack Bean who had the money to store it properly. At one time I saw the thing sitting in an open shed. "What the hell is that?" I asked. "That belongs to Skop." It was pretty awfull and the termites were having a field day.

He also had a Custom 8 Convertible that sat outside in the weather for a year because he didn't pay his garage bill. The car was one of three rough Custom 8 convertibles in New Jersey and made roadable by combining two to make one. Everybody knocked Marty Beron's paint job because it cracked after 25 years. But it was a budget restoration and would have done better in enamel paint. The donor Custom 8 was owned by a guy named Tony Catrone, who I believe, sold Ralph Marano his first Packard.

He had another car the belonged to Gene Beardslee and was an early CCCA special interest class car. It was a 40 120 conv. sedan with a running board delete done in California.

I could go on as to the present situation of the cars, but will leave that in confidence.