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Back in the late '60s I used to see this Packard Phaeton which, as I recall, had YOM (Year of Manufacture) 1930 plates which I can still just barely discern in the scan of the old Polaroid snapshot. Somewhere I've got one or two others too, taken around my hometown of Vallejo, CA, but came across this one today while packing to move and am curious if this is a known car. If it is, where is it today?

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By the front bumper with the outboard stabilizers and the headlamp support bar in front of what appears to be a vee'd radiator shell behind an aftermarket stone guard, I believe it to be a 1932, or Ninth Series Packard. the YOM plate is also in the correct colors for a 1932 California tag. Unfortunately I've no idea where this beauty is today.

Could very well be as I know nothing about these early cars but I will change the file name on my network harddrive to not mix it up again. Thank you very much for the correction.

As for the car itself, I loved the two-tone blue and used to see it pass by when in town visiting family but I lived in Bellevue, Washington at that time and was a teenager with several Packards of my own. It was in very nice condition but was driven rather than being a trailer queen. This was the only time I actually saw it parked anywhere.

It could be a 1931 model, too, with the '32 update "kit".