Re: packards in South Africa !!

Posted by Ozstatman On 2011/7/7 19:47:38

G'day Bill,
to PackardInfo and for including your '39 One Twenty 4 Door Touring Sedan in the Packard Owners Registry.

There are 2 Packard owners from JoBurg, that I know of, who are PackardInfo members being Philip Cronje, packardsafrica, here's a link to the thread where Philip introduced himself on PackardInfo. The other is Barrie, africapackard, there's an email address in his public profile, you could contact him on. Or send both guys a message through the PM links here on PackardInfo.

I met Philip and his wife Ansie when they visited Sydney in November 2009 to see their daughter Mariska. There are some pic's of them in this post on my Project Blog. I understand Philip has a lot of Packards, most in disrepair, but has a lovely restored '37 120 so should be able to point you in the right direction. Barrie, on the other hand has a '50 Standard Eight Sedan the restoration of which he documented in his Project Blog. Other sources for Packard Parts are Kanter Bros and Max Merritt, other Packard parts vendors as well as eBay.