Re: packards in tv and movies

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2014/9/21 8:06:28

That was a terrific series on the Roosevelts, one would expect no less from Ken Burns. Perhaps even better than the civil war series though there was more archival material to select from. Yeah, lots of Packards including perhaps a fleeting image of one of Stalin's in the Yalta footage.

According to the Smithsonian, there were 9 Packards assigned to the White House during FDR's tenure;

1005-631
1108-735
1508-1035 (3)
1708-1235
1708-1253
1908-1420 (LeBaron)
1908-1450

The 1932 Twin Six Touring (905-570) used by FDR when Governor of NY State still survives in the NY State garage in Albany and if you grovel with the attendants you might be able to get to see it. One of the 37 Twelves, later owned by Fred Duggan of Spring Lake NJ was destroyed in a fire in 1966 in a museum in Cape May, NJ. Last I knew the 39 Twelve which had the longest tenure in the White house (into 1948) was in the Larz Anderson museum in Boston.

Again according to the Smithsonian, there were 5 Packards assigned to the White House during the Truman administration;

2126-1650 (2)
2226-2250 (2)
2406-2452 (Derham with partition)