Re: Packard Request Dreamcar Article

Posted by Leeedy On 2012/3/15 11:48:39

Yes, Mr. Dopps was one of the three partners involved in doing the original restoration. There were two others-all in WA state.

What nobody mentions... or apparently notices is that the dome-shaped parking light/turn signal lenses in the first restoration were unlike the originals which were flat. When I last (recently) saw The Request in New Jersey, the lenses appear to have been corrected now.

A fellow I knew way back when was the man who actually constructed the hood, grille and the original front bumpers. These were all done at a place called Creative Industries of Detroit. They also did a lot of other work for Packard including on the Panthers and the Predictor... and other cars that Packard folk today apparently don't know about.

See the AQ Packard book and old issues of The Packard Cormorant magazine for info on who styled the front ends of the V-8 Packards and Clippers. One of the outside firms that was used as a consultant was a company called Sundberg-Ferrar if I remember correctly. And there were others...even independent sylists.