Re: Packard Monte Carlo

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/10/28 11:58:35

I've seen both a just-prewar and a just-post-war B&S Cadillac convertible coupe and I believe there were at least 2 B&S Packards at the 1999 Centennial. B&S was in Pasadena, CA and set up by former employees of the Walter Murphy Company. Their cars are generally pretty flamboyant as you would expect for a firm whose primary clientele was the Hollywood crowd.

Two often-seen pictures of their work on Packards can be seen on pg 189 of Hugo Pfau's The Coachbuilt Packard; these two a 1941 convertible sedan and a 1940 Enclosed Drive limousine.

In this thread we had stuck to the postwar show cars and custom creations that Packard produced; if we want to branch out into the work of the custom coachbuilders, I suggest we start a new thread.