Re: Capone's 1930 Packard on Craig's List

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2012/12/4 12:18:35

Back on post #19, Tim Cole noted: Bob Turnquist had a mint original 39 twelve and the vin number was "George M Cohan"

Tim, I don't recall the personalized patent plate on the Cohan car but it did have a conventional VN samped on the patent plate, 1235-2113 and the thief-proof # is 476775.

Regarding the earlier question about when Packard starting using their own font with the "1" represented by the "I" and the rather unusual "9" and "6", from a quick study it appears that they began that in 1932 though not uniformly across the product line, I have a patent plate from an early Light Eight which still uses the conventional numerals. Not that any of this has anything to do with the alleged Capone car.