Re: What Year & Model?

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2010/5/30 12:34:12

It looks big, though. Any thoughts on the model it might be? Was this possibly a V12 car?

Ah yes, a V12 in a scruffy, mean-looking Packard gangster getaway car.

Interesting thing in Minneapolis is a street that bisects two neighborhoods, Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis. It was originally called Division Street for this reason. It is also a straight shot between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In the bad old days of the gangster era, St. Paul was a notorious "safe" town for the mobsters. All the biggies went there when the heat was on.

A common heist run was to go into Minneapolis and rob the rich Scandinavians' banks and then hightail it back along Division Street to St. Paul, where the Irish pols loved the mobsters' high-quality hooch and ready cash.

I'd like to re-create that run in a black Packard with running boards and those fake paste-on bullet holes all over it.

A fella can dream, at least. (I'd leave out the bank robbery part, but might haul some rye whiskey.)